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ReviewClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico2025

Focal adhesion kinase-mediated interaction between tumor and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment: implications for cancer-associated therapies and tumor progression.

Louis Boafo Kwantwi, Theophilus Tandoh

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Review in Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Tumor-Derived LAMB3 Drives Immunosuppressive LRRC15Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  2. SSTNSignal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  5. CCL20 in the tumor microenvironment: implications for cancer progression and therapeutic approaches.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Louis Boafo KwantwiDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, 44272, USA. lkwantwi@neomed.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4015-2127
Theophilus TandohJudy and Bernard Briskin Center for Multiple Myeloma Research, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) expression has been linked to tumor growth, immunosuppression, metastasis, angiogenesis, and therapeutic resistance through kinase-dependent and kinase scaffolding functions in the nucleus and cytoplasm. Hence, targeting FAK alone or with other agents has gained attention as a potential therapeutic strategy. Moreover, mounting evidence shows that FAK activity can influence the tumor immune microenvironment crosstalk to support tumor progression. Recently, tumor immune microenvironment interaction orchestrators have shown to be promising therapeutic agents for cancer immunotherapies. Therefore, this review highlights how FAK regulates the tumor immune microenvironment interplay to promote tumor immune evasive mechanisms and their potential for combination therapies with standard cancer treatments.

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Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine KinasesNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsDisease ProgressionHumansImmunotherapyFocal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine KinasesCancer treatmentsFAKFocal adhesion kinaseImmune cellsTumor microenvironment

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