Chemokine pathways in cutaneous melanoma: their modulation by cancer and exploitation by the clinician

Adams, Rebecca, Moser, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4354-4572, Karagiannis, Sophia N. and Lacy, Katie E. 2021. Chemokine pathways in cutaneous melanoma: their modulation by cancer and exploitation by the clinician. Cancers 13 (22) , 5625. 10.3390/cancers13225625

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Abstract

The incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma is rising globally and is projected to continue to rise. Advances in immunotherapy over the last decade have demonstrated that manipulation of the immune cell compartment of tumours is a valuable weapon in the arsenal against cancer; however, limitations to treatment still exist. Cutaneous melanoma lesions feature a dense cell infiltrate, coordinated by chemokines, which control the positioning of all immune cells. Melanomas are able to use chemokine pathways to preferentially recruit cells, which aid their growth, survival, invasion and metastasis, and which enhance their ability to evade anticancer immune responses. Aside from this, chemokine signalling can directly influence angiogenesis, invasion, lymph node, and distal metastases, including epithelial to mesenchymal transition-like processes and transendothelial migration. Understanding the interplay of chemokines, cancer cells, and immune cells may uncover future avenues for melanoma therapy, namely: identifying biomarkers for patient stratification, augmenting the effect of current and emerging therapies, and designing specific treatments to target chemokine pathways, with the aim to reduce melanoma pathogenicity, metastatic potential, and enhance immune cell-mediated cancer killing. The chemokine network may provide selective and specific targets that, if included in current therapeutic regimens, harbour potential to improve outcomes for patients.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	MDPI
ISSN:	2072-6694
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 January 2022
Date of Acceptance:	6 November 2021
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 05:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/146963

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