We can consider the tumour as a bandit’s base in a village, from which a community of different functional units grows — the millions of cells involved in the tumour microenvironment.
Surrounding these epithelial cells is a microenvironment of supporting cells including stromal cells, such as lung fibroblasts, and tissue resident and transient circulating immune cells.
The tumour microenvironment (TME) provides a supportive niche for cancer to evade therapies and progress towards metastatic disease. In our group we are investigating the components of the TME that ...