ReviewCell reports2021
Cancer Stemness Meets Immunity: From Mechanism to Therapy.
Review in Cell reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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152 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 260 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Immunostimulatory lipogel implant enhances cancer immunotherapy.Nature nanotechnology · 2026Article
- Cancer stem cells and drug resistance in cancer: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Review
- Complement C5a/C5aR1 pathway facilitates glioblastoma progression via fostering glioma stem cell-macrophage symbiosis.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
- A tumor-intrinsic WNT-inhibitory NOTUM program drives immune resistance in microsatellite stable colorectal cancer.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Symbiotic exclusivity between CLOCK and TFPI2 drives stemness and immunosuppression in glioblastoma models.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Article
- Lactate and lactylation: metabolic architects of tumor progression and metastasis.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- DSG2+ Cancer Stem Cells Co-Located With FAP+ Myofibroblasts in the Tumor Boundary That Determines the Efficacy of Immunotherapy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Effects of Tumor Microenvironment on Lung Cancer Stem Cells: Bidirectional Regulatory Mechanisms.Cancer medicine · 2026Review
- Molecular Determinants of Macrophage Polarization in Glioblastoma and Implications for Tumor Progression.Cells · 2026Article
- Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Drives Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer via Glutathione-Mediated Stemness Maintenance.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Asporin regulates glycolysis and stemness of gastric cancer cells.Journal of molecular histology · 2026Article
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- Recent advances in m6A RNA modification in hepatocellular carcinoma: from mechanisms to therapeutic potential.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2026Review
- MRPS28 serves as a biomarker of diagnostic, prognostic, and immune modulation in pan-cancer and promotes breast cancer malignant phenotypes.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Progress of siRNA Nanomedicines in Modulating the Microenvironment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- Targeting cancer stem cell plasticity and tumor microenvironment crosstalk: a comprehensive review.Discover oncology · 2025Review
- The Redox-Adhesion-Exosome (RAX) Hub in Cancer: Lipid Peroxidation-Driven EMT Plasticity and Ferroptosis Defense with HNE/MDA Signaling and Lipidomic Perspectives.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are self-renewing cells that facilitate tumor initiation, promote metastasis, and enhance cancer therapy resistance. Transcriptomic analyses across many cancer types have revealed a prominent association between stemness and immune signatures, potentially implying a biological interaction between such hallmark features of cancer. Emerging experimental evidence has substantiated the influence of CSCs on immune cells, including tumor-associated macrophages, myeloid-derived suppressor cells, and T cells, in the tumor microenvironment and, reciprocally, the importance of such immune cells in sustaining CSC stemness and its survival niche. This review covers the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the symbiotic interactions between CSCs and immune cells and how such heterotypic signaling maintains a tumor-promoting ecosystem and informs therapeutic strategies intercepting this co-dependency.
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