Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Baylor College of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation MD/PhD Scholars, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Baylor College of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; McNair Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Cancer Cell. 2022 Aug 8;40(8):812-814. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2022.07.001. Epub 2022 Jul 14.
A Cell article reports that lymph node metastases can suppress the immune system, thereby promoting further cancer spread in mouse models; this is corroborated in patients as described in a letter in this issue of Cancer Cell. The lymph node thus actively generates a cancer-permissive environment and is an untapped target to manipulate the immune system.
Cell 杂志上的一篇文章报道称,淋巴结转移可抑制免疫系统,从而促进小鼠模型中的癌症进一步扩散;这在 Cancer Cell 本期发表的一封来信中也得到了患者数据的证实。因此,淋巴结可主动生成有利于癌症的环境,这是一个有待开发的免疫系统调控靶点。