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ReviewCancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center

Cancer Stem Cells Decide the Fate of Cancer Immunotherapy by Remodeling Tumor Microenvironment.

Sourio Chakraborty, Udit Basak, Sumon Mukherjee, Sumoyee Mukherjee, Tanya Das

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Review in Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sourio ChakrabortyDepartment of Biological Sciences (former Division of Molecular Medicine), Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.ORCID 0000-0003-4925-2754
Udit BasakDepartment of Biological Sciences (former Division of Molecular Medicine), Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.ORCID 0000-0001-9632-8614
Sumon MukherjeeDepartment of Biological Sciences (former Division of Molecular Medicine), Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.ORCID 0000-0003-2175-0348
Sumoyee MukherjeeDepartment of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8455-1883
Tanya DasDepartment of Biological Sciences (former Division of Molecular Medicine), Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.ORCID 0000-0002-9583-0693

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Success of cancer immunotherapy (CIT) is intricately influenced by the tumor microenvironment (TME), a complex ecosystem that encompasses immune cells, stromal elements, and extracellular components. Despite the clinical breakthroughs of immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), adoptive cell therapies, cancer vaccines, and other immunotherapeutic interventions, many patients fail to respond and eventually die. Emerging evidence points to cancer stem cells (CSCs) as critical drivers of immune evasion, therapy-resistance, and tumor relapse. CSCs modulate the TME by secreting immune-suppressive factors, recruiting regulatory immune cells, and inducing phenotype-switching of anti-tumor TME subsets, thereby creating a protective niche that hinders immune surveillance. Conversely, the TME protects CSCs through hypoxia, altered metabolism, and immuno-suppressive cell populations. This bi-directional crosstalk supports tumor progression and provides resistance to immunotherapeutic strategies mainly by: (i) escaping immune-recognition and inhibiting active T cells

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ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsNeoplastic Stem CellsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsHumanscancer immunotherapycancer stem cellsimmune-suppressionstemnesstherapy-resistancetumor microenvironment

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PMID40992760
PMCPMC12461067

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