@CancerNeurosci

Program in Cancer Neuroscience at Stanford (CNS). Seeking to understand and therapeutically target nervous system-cancer interactions.

med.stanford.edu/neurology/divisions/cancer-neuroscience.html
Joined June 2022
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Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monjeSep 20
Brain cancers take advantage of neural circuit activity. Re-purposing an anti-seizure med called levetiracetam disrupts an important neuron-cancer interaction in #DMG #DIPG, slowing growth and extending survival in mice and retrospective patient data. nature.com/articles/s41591-0…

Levetiracetam therapeutically targets GABAergic synapses in diffuse midline glioma

Nature Medicine - Results of this study show in experimental models and data from patient cohorts that the antiseizure medication levetiracetam is associated with longer survival and reduced tumor...

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Don’t miss this landmark meeting!!
Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monje11 Oct 2024
#CancerNeuroscience @KeystoneSymp abstract deadline October 22! Don't miss this amazing meeting, to be held jointly with the Tumor Microenvironment symposium! Banff will be gorgeous, and there is a virtual option too! Scholarships available. Join us!
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Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monje15 Aug 2024
#CancerNeuroscience 🧠 – at East Palo Alto, CA
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute@StanfordBrain15 Aug 2024
In this week’s podcast episode, Stanford neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje @michelle_monje explains how many deadly tumors depend on the nervous system’s electrical activity to grow and spread, presenting an exciting new line of attack for oncology research. neuroscience.stanford.edu/ne…
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Cancer Neuroscience Heidelberg@CancerNeurosci110 Mar 2024
#CancerNeuroscience
Gutmann Laboratory@GutmannLab10 Mar 2024
Really nice story about #Cancer #Neuroscience. Read about how the @GutmannLab, @humsav, @michelle_monje, @Winkler_Lab, @VarunVenkatara2, @Yuan, @Corina_Anast, and others are studying the interactions between neurons and cancer. thetransmitter.org/neurobiol…

Making cancer nervous

Nerve cells in the brain and throughout the body can turbocharge tumor growth — a finding that not only expands conventional ideas about the nervous system but points to novel therapeutic targets for…

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Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monje1 Mar 2024
Starting the day with back-to-back brilliant talks by @YuanPan3 and @Kathryn_RTaylor at the @MDAndersonNews #CancerNeuroscience meeting😊 #ProudMentor
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Matthia Karreman@MA_Karreman12 Jan 2024
We are exited to share our discovery of excitatory synapses between neurons and tumor cells in brain metastases of breast cancer & melanoma. The groundbreaking study co-led by @VarunVenkatara2 and me, with Thomas Kuner & @WinklerLab: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #CancerNeuroscience
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USA TODAY Health@USATODAYhealth19 Nov 2023
What role does the nervous system play in cancer? Finding out may mean beating the disease. usatoday.com/story/news/heal…

People on meds for depression are showing fewer cases of cancer. Is there a link?

Understanding the link between cancer tumors and the nervous system may be essential for winning the war on cancer, researchers say.

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Kathryn R. Taylor@Kathryn_RTaylor2 Nov 2023
Thank you to Erin Digitale @Stanford_Neuro for writing this excellent article on our #CancerNeuroscience work 🧠
Stanford Neurology & Neurological Sciences
@Stanford_Neuro2 Nov 2023
A new branch of oncology, cancer neuroscience, offers hope for hard-to-treat brain tumors. ow.ly/xAkW50Q3jhj

A new branch of oncology, cancer neuroscience, offers hope for hard-to-treat brain tumors

To drive their growth, many tumors hijack nervous system signals, including those needed for brain plasticity. Stanford Medicine discoveries are opening a promising new branch of oncology research.

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Kathryn R. Taylor@Kathryn_RTaylor2 Nov 2023
It was a privilege to lead this #CancerNeuroscience study on how glioma can recruit mechanisms of adaptive plasticity to promote cancer growth. I am eternally grateful to have an incredible mentor @michelle_monje and to have collaborated with such an outstanding group scientists
Using optogenetic depolarization of the glioma cells, we found that the larger the current, the bigger the growth effect. Stronger synapses, bigger currents, promote greater tumor cell proliferation.

ALT Using optogenetic depolarization of the glioma cells, we found that the larger the current, the bigger the growth effect. Stronger synapses, bigger currents, promote greater tumor cell proliferation.

Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monje2 Nov 2023
#CancerNeuroscience work by the brilliant postdoc @Kathryn_RTaylor published (open access) today demonstrates that malignant gliomas #DIPG #GBM recruit mechanisms of synaptic plasticity to drive cancer growth. A thread… (1/ ) nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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@statnews1 Nov 2023
The idea that cancer cells can hijack brain plasticity — subverting healthy brain processes to promote growth — is gaining traction. trib.al/M7XBEkl
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Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monje29 Jun 2023
Exciting new #CancerNeuroscience paper from Ben Deneen’s group ⁦@bcmhouston⁩ @bcm_neurosci⁩ , uncovering neuronal activity-regulated paracrine signaling from long range projections to #glioma that promotes tumor invasion. 🧠 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Thank you for highlighting the important emerging field of #CancerNeuroscience, @EricTopol !
Eric Topol
@EricTopol14 Jun 2023
🆕 @Nature The Neuroscience of Cancer, an outstanding review by @MancusiRebecca and @michelle_monje nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Prompted me to put together a new Ground Truths explainer on the impressive headway in this field erictopol.substack.com/p/can…
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Landmark #CancerNeuroscience paper!
Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monje3 May 2023
#Glioblastoma remodels functional neural circuitry in the human brain, benefiting the tumor and harming the individual. Transformative work by the brilliant @HerveyJumper. #CancerNeuroscience
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Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monje13 Mar 2023
The #Hallmarks of #Cancer constitute a theoretical framework for rationalizing the vast complexity of cancer & its underlying mechanisms. Here we discuss nervous system-cancer interactions ‘‘enabling’’ hallmark functions & consequent cancer pathogenesis sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Gutmann Laboratory@GutmannLab23 Jan 2023
For those Cancer Neuroscience devotees, please check out our most recent review on the topic! authors.elsevier.com/a/1gTWZ…
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#CancerNeuroscience #SCLC
Michelle Monje 🟦
@michelle_monje21 Jan 2023
New Preprint! Exciting #LungCancer #CancerNeuroscience story led by the now independent Humsa Venkatesh @humsav @VenkateshLab @BWHNeurology @HarvardMed_ and @Stanford med student @SavchukSol. #ProudMentorMoment
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A beautiful and important #CancerNeuroscience paper!
Barbara Marte@BarbMarte14 Dec 2022
new out in Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Varun Venkataramani@VarunVenkatara22 Dec 2022
Very happy to share out latest #CancerNeuroscience review about multicellular brain tumor networks in diffuse glioma led by @YvoYang @MarcCSchubert together with T. Kuner, @wick_wolfgang @Winkler_Lab: rdcu.be/cZrgU @uniklinik_hd @DKFZ @CancerNeurosci1 @HdNeurooncology !
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