ReviewCell2023
Fibroblasts in cancer: Unity in heterogeneity.
Review in Cell, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 304 papers.
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304 citing papers in PubMed, 439 citations in OpenAlex.
- Three-Year Follow-Up of Neoadjuvant Tislelizumab with Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma: Revealing Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Heterogeneity Corresponding to PD-1 Blockade Efficacy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Trial
- Pathological response and metabolites' prognostic role in HER2-positive breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant pyrotinib, trastuzumab, nab-paclitaxel, and carboplatin: a single-arm phase II trial.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2025Trial
- 177Lu-LNC1004 Radioligand Therapy in Patients with End-stage Metastatic Cancers: A Single-Center, Single-Arm, Phase II Study.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025Trial
- Immune-featured stromal niches associate with response to neoadjuvant immunotherapy in oral squamous cell carcinoma.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Trial
- An Anoikis-Related Gene Signature Associated With Stromal Remodeling and Clinical Outcome in Gastric Cancer.Chemical biology & drug design · 2026Article
- The dual immune landscape of homologous recombination-deficient tumors: mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2026Review
- Multi-omics mapping of TIMP1-associated stromal-myeloid remodeling in autoimmune gastritis and gastric cancer.Hereditas · 2026Article
- Cancer-associated fibroblast-derived POSTN as a metabolic "switch" shapes lipid-stressed macrophage polarization in gastric cancer.Redox biology · 2026Article
- Integrative analysis reveals the clinical utility of cancer-associated fibroblast-derived signature, and its implication for young-onset thyroid cancer.Genes & diseases · 2026Article
- Multi-omics identifies VMP1 as a tumor-intrinsic biomarker associated with metastatic progression and immune microenvironment remodeling in HNSCC.Translational oncology · 2026Article
- Inhalable Degradation-Tunable Hybrid Nanoparticles With Rapid Lysosomal Escape for Dual siRNA Therapy Against NSCLC.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Microarray chip to fabricate 3D PDAC heterospheroids with architectural organization towards tumor invasion and chemoresistance study.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Article
- ECM-producing cancer-associated fibroblasts as orchestrators of chemoresistance via early microenvironmental priming.Translational cancer research · 2026Article
- Tumor-Derived LAMB3 Drives Immunosuppressive LRRC15Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Label-Free Monitoring of Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Activation Using NAD(P)H Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026Article
- Targeting the CAF-GDF15 axis attenuates AKT-mediated mitochondrial rewiring and chemoradiation resistance in esophageal adenocarcinoma.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2026Article
- The PLAU-ITGB1-TGF-β axis orchestrates spatiotemporal reprogramming of fibroblasts at the invasive front to drive dual immunosuppressive niche and immunotherapy resistance in oral squamous cell carcinoma.Cell death & disease · 2026Article
- Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Promote Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Classical to Basal Subtype Shift in Pancreatic Cancer.Cancer research · 2026Article
- Fibroblasts: a diverse population of cells balancing homeostasis, wound healing, regeneration, inflammation, fibrosis, and cancer across organs.JCI insight · 2026Review
- Interpretable and scalable spatial gene set activity analysis with GESSO uncovers functional tissue architecture.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Tumor cells do not exist in isolation in vivo, and carcinogenesis depends on the surrounding tumor microenvironment (TME), composed of a myriad of cell types and biophysical and biochemical components. Fibroblasts are integral in maintaining tissue homeostasis. However, even before a tumor develops, pro-tumorigenic fibroblasts in close proximity can provide the fertile 'soil' to the cancer 'seed' and are known as cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). In response to intrinsic and extrinsic stressors, CAFs reorganize the TME enabling metastasis, therapeutic resistance, dormancy and reactivation by secreting cellular and acellular factors. In this review, we summarize the recent discoveries on CAF-mediated cancer progression with a particular focus on fibroblast heterogeneity and plasticity.
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