Chiara De-Colle, David Mönnich, Stefan Welz, Simon Boeke, Bence Sipos, Falko Fend, Paul-Stefan Mauz, Inge Tinhofer, Volker Budach, Jehad Abu Jawad, Martin Stuschke, Panagiotis Balermpas, Claus Rödel, Anca-Ligia Grosu, Amir Abdollahi, Jürgen Debus, Christine Bayer, Claus Belka, Steffi Pigorsch, Stephanie E Combs, Fabian Lohaus, Annett Linge, Mechthild Krause, Michael Baumann, Daniel Zips, Apostolos Menegakis
Introduction: Outcome after postoperative radiochemotherapy (RT-CT) for patients with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) remains unsatisfactory, especially among those with HPV negative tumours. Therefore, new biomarkers are needed to further define subgroups for individualised therapeutic approaches. Preclinical and first clinical observations showed that the chemokine receptor CXCR4 and its ligand SDF-1 (CXCL12) play an important role in tumour cell proliferation, survival, cancer progression, metastasis and treatment resistance...
August 2017: Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology