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Invasion and Metastasis Flashcards

1
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How are tumours grouped into different types?

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By their tissue of origin

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What is the name for benign and malignant tumours arising from the epithelium?

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Adenoma/Papilloma and Carcinoma

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What is the name for benign and malignant tumours arising from connective tissue?

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Lipoma/Fibroma/Haemangioma and Sarcoma

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What is the name for benign and malignant tumours arising from lymphoid tissue?

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Lymphoid hyperplasia and Lymphoma

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What is the name for benign and malignant tumours arising from haemopoietic tissue?

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Myeloid proliferations and Leukaemia

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What is the name for benign and malignant tumours arising from germ cells?

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Terratoma and Germinoma

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7
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How is benign large colon adenoma seen macroscopically?

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Polyps

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What is a prerequisite to the metastatic cascade?

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Accumulation of genetic mutations

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9
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Which hallmarks of cancer are important for metastatic disease?

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  • Inducing angiogenesis

- Activating invasion and metastasis

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10
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What happens in growth and invasion?

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Primary tumour forms and invades tissues locally.

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What happens in transport to distant sites?

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Intravasation, transport through the circulation and arrest in microvessels of various organs

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What happens for metastasis to thrive at a new site?

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Extravasation into new tissue, formation of micrometastasis, and colonisation of a macrometastasis

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13
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What does metatstasis require?

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Environmental changes

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14
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What is detected in stroma surrounding many human cancers?

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Tumour associated macrophages

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15
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What does a lack of ability to express tumour associated macrophages correlate with?

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Decreased risk of developing metastsis.

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How do tumour cells and macrophages support each other in cell migration of mammary tumours?

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Macrohoages express EGF which acts on the EGF receptor of tumour cells. Tumour cells then express CSF-1 which works on the CSF-1 receptor in the macrophage.

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17
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What needs to be disrupted in order for cell migration to occur?

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Cell-cell adhesions

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18
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What is epithelial-mesenchymal transition?

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EMT = when structure of cells goes from strong cell-cell adhesions and interactions to more like mesenchyme cells in phenotype

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19
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What cell-cell interactions are disrupted?

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  • Tight junctions
  • Adherens junction
  • Desmosomes
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What is an adherens junction?

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Junction formed by 2 cadherin molecules which span the extracellular membrane of both cells.

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21
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What is the adherens junction regulated by?

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Ca2+

22
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What happens on the intracellular side of the cadherin?

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Many proteins can bind to it to help regulate its function and confer more structure and stability to keep the cell rigid

23
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What change in E-cadherin expression is associated with aggressive bladder cancer?

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Aberrant or (-) - advanced tumour stage, tumour de-differentiation, lymph node metastasis and increased risk of death.

24
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What is EMT activated by?

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Different signalling pathways, producing Twist, Snail and SIP1.

25
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What do the EMT pathways result in?

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Inhibition of E-cadherin expression, and induction of mesenchymal marker expression

26
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How many migration strategies are there?

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4

27
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Name the migration strategies

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  • Ameoboid
  • Mesenchymal (single cells/chains)
  • Cluster/cohorts
  • Multicllular strands/sheets
28
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Which tumour types migrate via the ameoboid strategy?

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  • Lymphoma
  • Leukaemia
  • SCLC
29
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Which tumour types migrate via the mesenchymal strategy?

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  • Fibrocarcinoma
  • Glioblastoma
  • Anaplastic tumours
30
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Which tumour types migrate via the cluster/cohort strategy?

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  • Epithelial cancer

- Melanoma

31
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Which tumour types migrate via the multicellular strand/sheet strategy?

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  • Epithelial cancer

- Vascular tumours

32
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What are the 4 steps in mesenchymal migration?

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  • Protrusion
  • Adhesion
  • Translocation
  • Retraction
33
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What happens in protrusion?

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Polymerised actin pushes the membrane at the leading edge in the direction of movement driven by key Rho family GTPases

34
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What happens in adhesion?

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Cell forms new contacts close to the leading edge using a Rho family GTPase

35
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What happens in translocation?

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Acto-myosin contraction promotes translocation of the cell body using a Rho family GTPase

36
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What happens in retraction?

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Loss of adhesions in tail end of cell and tail retraction

37
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What underpins mesenchymal migration?

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Integrin signalling

38
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What are integrins?

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Transmembrane receptors that attach the cell cytoskeleton to the ECM - made of an alpha and beta subunit. 24 heterodimers (18a and 8b)- and mediate focal adhesions

39
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Which direction do integrins signal in?

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Both into and out of the cell

40
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Why do invading cancer cells have to have a proteolytic function?

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So they can move through and degrade the ECM

41
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Name some ECM Degrading Proteases

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  • Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)
  • Serine proteases
  • Adamalysin-Related Membrane proteases
  • Bone-morphogenic protein -1 type metalloproteases
  • Heparanases
  • Cysteine proteases
42
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What is angiogenesis?

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New blood vessel formation

43
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What induced angiogenesis in tumours?

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Hypoxia

44
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What is the mechanism fro hypoxia-induced tumour angiogenesis?

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Tumour larger than 2mm requires more blood vessels. Endothelial cells release paracrine growth factors. Tumour cells secrete VEGF.

45
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What is sometimes seen within a tumour?

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High levels of necrosis in the centre of large tumours

46
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What can transport cancer cells to distant sites?

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  • Blood vessels
  • Lymphatics
  • Body cavities via direct invasion
47
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Why can cancer cells move via lymphatics?

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No basement membrane

48
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Give some examples of transport to distant sites via body cavities

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  • Colon cancer to peritoneum
  • Lung cancer to pleurae
  • Brain cancer to ventricles
49
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What are the steps that take a CTC to extravasation?

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Capture -> Rolling -> Arrest -> Exravasation between endothelial cells
May go from capture straight to arrest

50
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What cell surface receptors mediate rolling?

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  • E-selectin and P-selectin receptors on endothelium

- CD44, CEA and PODXL on tumour cell

51
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What cell surface receptors mediate arrest?

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  • ICAM1 and VCAM1 receptors on endothelium

- Integrins on tumour cell

52
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How might a CTC begin to grow within a blood vessel?

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Adherence of platelets onto CTC. Another CTC with platelets binds to a nucleated cell by platelet mediated capture and then subsequent growth occurs

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