Editorial: New insights into fibrotic signaling in cancer

Patrick Ming-Kuen Tang; Eric W-F Lam; Francis Mussal; Dongmei Zhang; Chunjie Li

doi:10.3389/fonc.2024.1369457

Editorial: New insights into fibrotic signaling in cancer

Front Oncol. 2024 Feb 2:14:1369457. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1369457. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Patrick Ming-Kuen Tang¹, Eric W-F Lam², Francis Mussal³, Dongmei Zhang⁴, Chunjie Li⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, State Key Laboratory of Translational Oncology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
² Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong, China.
³ Paediatric Oncology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
⁴ College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
⁵ Department of Head and Neck Oncology, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

No abstract available

Keywords: cancer; cancer therapy; fibrotic signaling; macrophage to Neuron-like cell Transition (MNT); macrophage-myofibroblast transition (MMT); tumor microenvironment.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (14106518, 14111019, 14111720, 24102723); RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (PDFS2122-4S06); Health and Medical Research Fund (10210726, 11220576); CU Medicine Passion for Perfection Scheme (PFP202210-004) and Faculty Innovation Award (4620528), CUHK Strategic Seed Funding for Collaborative Research Scheme (178896941), Direct Grant for Research (4054722), Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (NL/LT/PDFS2022/0360/22lt, WW/PDFS2023/0640/23en).