- Title
- The emerging role of the microenvironment in endometrial cancer
- Creator
- Sahoo, Subhransu S.; Zhang, Xu Dong; Hondermarck, Hubert; Tanwar, Pradeep S.
- Relation
- NHMRC.1159094 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1159094
- Relation
- Cancers Vol. 10, Issue 11, no. 408
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers10110408
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Endometrial cancer (EC) is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in women, and despite recent therapeutic advances, in many cases, treatment failure results in cancer recurrence, metastasis, and death. Current research demonstrates that the interactive crosstalk between two discrete cell types (tumor and stroma) promotes tumor growth and investigations have uncovered the dual role of the stromal cells in the normal and cancerous state. In contrast to tumor cells, stromal cells within the tumor microenvironment (TME) are genetically stable. However, tumor cells modify adjacent stromal cells in the TME. The alteration in signaling cascades of TME from anti-tumorigenic to pro-tumorigenic enhances metastatic potential and/or confers therapeutic resistance. Therefore, the TME is a fertile ground for the development of novel therapies. Furthermore, disrupting cancer-promoting signals from the TME or re-educating stromal cells may be an effective strategy to impair metastatic progression. Here, we review the paradoxical role of different non-neoplastic stromal cells during specific stages of EC progression. We also suggest that the inhibition of microenvironment-derived signals may suppress metastatic EC progression and offer novel potential therapeutic interventions.
- Subject
- endometrial cancer; TME; stromal cells; metastasis; chemoprevention
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1411398
- Identifier
- uon:36332
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-6694
- Rights
- © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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