Cancer cells are proving trickier than we thought, so scientists are getting even trickier to shift the survival odds in our favor. Recent medical research has highlighted a significant issue: cancer cells display plasticity. Some cancer cells can spontaneously revert from a differentiated state to become ‘immature’ and stem-cell-like again, switching their identity to yield more diverse, aggressive, and proliferative tumors.
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Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are tumor cells that have the principal properties of self-renewal, clonal tumor initiation capacity and clonal long-term repopulation potential. CSCs reside in niches, which are anatomically distinct regions within the tumor microenvironment. These niches maintain the principle properties of CSCs, preserve their phenotypic plasticity, protect them from the immune system and facilitate their metastatic potential. In this perspective, we focus on the CSC niche and discuss its contribution to tumor initiation and progression. Since CSCs survive many commonly employed cancer therapies, we examine the prospects of targeting the niche components as preferable therapeutic targets.
A cancer vaccine built from a patient’s own tumor just passed a Phase 3 trial, the first time that has ever happened. Moderna and Merck’s intismeran autogene (mRNA-4157 / V940) reads the DNA of a patient’s melanoma, picks up to 34 tumor-specific mutations, and writes them into a single strand of mRNA that trains the immune system to hunt the cancer. Combined with Keytruda, it kept melanoma from coming back or spreading in a 1,137 patient trial. Moderna’s stock jumped over 200 percent in a day.
In this episode: what was actually announced (and the numbers that weren’t), how the 130-year-old idea behind it finally worked, why the mRNA backlash aimed at the wrong suspect, a beat-by-beat check on the viral claims (\.