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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2025

Stromal senescence contributes to age-related increases in cancer.

Jiayu Ye, Anupama Melam, Sheila A Stewart

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Hallmarks of the ageing lung: 10 years later.The European respiratory journal · 2026
    Review
  3. Senescent fibroblasts drive CD8Journal of translational medicine · 2026
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Ageing, immune fitness and cancer.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2025
    Review
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jiayu Ye *Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Anupama Melam *Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-5273
Sheila A StewartDepartment of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. sheila.stewart@wustl.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-9576

Funding

MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY TRAINING GRANTT32CA113275 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Matthew J Walter · 2006 to 2026
$5.7M
MICROENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS OF TUMOR DORMANCYR01AG059244 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI STEWART, SHEILA A · 2018 to 2022
$2.5M
SENESCENT STROMA STIMULATES INFLAMMATION TO PROMOTE TUMORIGENESISR01CA217208 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI STEWART, SHEILA A · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
Understanding how senescent stromal cells contribute to mammary gland tumorigenesisF31CA271721 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI YE, JIAYU · 2022 to 2024
$97k
NCI NIH HHS F31 CA271721NCI NIH HHS R01 CA217208NCI NIH HHS T32 CA113275NIA NIH HHS R01 AG059244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ageing is a process characterized by a wide array of cellular and systemic changes that together increase the risk of developing cancer. While cell-autonomous mutations within incipient tumour cells are important, age-related changes in the microenvironment are critical partners in the transformation process and response to therapy. However, aspects of ageing that are important and the degree to which they contribute to cancer remain obscure. One of the factors that impacts ageing is increased cellular senescence but it is important to note that ageing and cellular senescence are not synonymous. We highlight open questions, including if senescent cells have phenotypically distinct impacts in aged versus young tissue, or if it is the cell type that dictates the impact of senescence on tissue homeostasis and disease. Finally, it is probable that our current definition of cellular senescence encompasses more than one mechanistically distinct cellular state; thus, we highlight phenotypic differences that have been noted across cell types and tissues of origin. This Review focuses on the role that senescent stromal cells have in cancer, with a particular emphasis on fibroblasts given the amount of work that has focused on them.

Indexed as

AgingCellular SenescenceNeoplasmsStromal CellsAnimalsFibroblastsHumansTumor Microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40760053

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