ReviewCell death discovery2023
Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: opportunities and challenges.
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- Uncovering the Potential of 3D Spheroids for Modeling the Cellular Crosstalk Within the Tumor Microenvironment in HNSCC.Biotechnology journal · 2026Review
- Myofibroblast-Like CAFs in Metastatic Lymph Nodes Drive Tumor Stemness and Poor Prognosis in Head and Neck Cancer.Cancer science · 2026Article
- An Integrative Methylation-Metabolism Gene Signature Defines Prognosis and Immunosuppressive Microenvironment in Prostate Cancer.Chemical biology & drug design · 2026Article
- Loss of Gαq reshapes fibroblast traits and drives tumor-stroma remodeling in oral cancer progression.EMBO reports · 2026Article
- A highly resolved integrated single-cell atlas of HPV-negative head and neck cancer.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Cancer metabolism: bridging tumorigenesis mechanisms to treatment susceptibility.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- CanSig Benchmarks Methods for Reproducible Cancer Cell State Discovery from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data.Cancer research · 2026Article
- Stromal cells contribute to progression, recurrence, and metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma: a call for therapy.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Oncological Safety of High Hydrostatic Pressure Treatment: Effects on Cancer-Associated Fibroblast-like Transdifferentiation of Adipose Stromal Cells.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Article
- SULF1 in Cancer Associated Fibroblasts Promotes Invasion in Head and Neck Cancer Cell Lines.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Understanding the Tumor Microenvironment and Therapy Resistance in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Cells · 2025Review
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- AI-driven multi-omics integration of cancer-associated fibroblasts for prognostic modeling and therapeutic target discovery in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.NPJ precision oncology · 2025Article
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- CELLetter: leveraging large language model and dual-stream network to identify context-specific ligand-receptor interactions for cell-cell communication analysis.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025Article
- Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts: Origin, Classification, Tumorigenicity, and Targeting for Cancer Therapy.MedComm · 2025Review
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- Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck: Beyond EGFR and Checkpoint Blockade.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Immune Evasion in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Roles of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts, Immune Checkpoints, andCancers · 2025Review
- Head and neck tumor organoid grown under simplified media conditions model tumor biology and chemoradiation responses.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is among the most severe and complex malignant diseases with a high level of heterogeneity and, as a result, a wide range of therapeutic responses, regardless of clinical stage. Tumor progression depends on ongoing co-evolution and cross-talk with the tumor microenvironment (TME). In particular, cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), embedded in the extracellular matrix (ECM), induce tumor growth and survival by interacting with tumor cells. Origin of CAFs is quite varied, and the activation patterns of CAFs are also heterogeneous. Crucially, the heterogeneity of CAFs appears to play a key role in ongoing tumor expansion, including facilitating proliferation, enhancing angiogenesis and invasion, and promoting therapy resistance, through the production of cytokines, chemokines, and other tumor-promotive molecules in the TME. This review describes the various origin and heterogeneous activation mechanisms of CAFs, and biological heterogeneity of CAFs in HNSCC is also included. Moreover, we have highlighted versatility of CAFs heterogeneity in HNSCC progression, and have discussed different tumor-promotive functions of CAFs respectively. In the future, it is a promising strategy for the therapy of HNSCC that specifically targeting tumor-promoting CAF subsets or the tumor-promoting functional targets of CAFs.
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