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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND TARGETED THERAPY
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41392-020-00419-w
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- Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi [D.O.NO.BT/HRD/35/02/2006]
- Sidra Medicine Doha, Qatar [5071012001]
- Sidra Medicine internal grant [5011041002]
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HNSCC is a highly aggressive disease with a poor prognosis, and understanding the complex TME interactions is crucial for new therapeutic interventions. The different molecular and immune landscapes between HPV+ve and HPV-ve tumors present new opportunities for individualized, targeted CIT regimens.
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a very aggressive disease with a poor prognosis for advanced-stage tumors. Recent clinical, genomic, and cellular studies have revealed the highly heterogeneous and immunosuppressive nature of HNSCC. Despite significant advances in multimodal therapeutic interventions, failure to cure and recurrence are common and account for most deaths. It is becoming increasingly apparent that tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a critical role in HNSCC tumorigenesis, promotes the evolution of aggressive tumors and resistance to therapy, and thereby adversely affects the prognosis. A complete understanding of the TME factors, together with the highly complex tumor-stromal interactions, can lead to new therapeutic interventions in HNSCC. Interestingly, different molecular and immune landscapes between HPV+ve and HPV-ve (human papillomavirus) HNSCC tumors offer new opportunities for developing individualized, targeted chemoimmunotherapy (CIT) regimen. This review highlights the current understanding of the complexity between HPV+ve and HPV-ve HNSCC TME and various tumor-stromal cross-talk modulating processes, including epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), anoikis resistance, angiogenesis, immune surveillance, metastatic niche, therapeutic resistance, and development of an aggressive tumor phenotype. Furthermore, we summarize the recent developments and the rationale behind CIT strategies and their clinical applications in HPV+ve and HPV-ve HNSCC.
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