Cellular spartans at the pass: Emerging intricacies of cell competition in early and late tumorigenesis

CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY(2024)

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Cell competition is a mechanism for cellular quality control based on cell-cell comparisons of fitness. Recent studies have unveiled a central and complex role for cell competition in cancer. Early tumors exploit cell competition to replace neighboring normal epithelial cells. Intestinal adenomas, for example, use cell competition to outcompete wild-type epithelial cells. However, oncogenic mutations do not always confer an advantage: wild-type cells can identify mutant cells and enforce their extrusion through cell competition, a process termed "epithelial defense against cancer". A particularly interesting situation emerges in metastasis: supercompetitive tumor cells encounter heterotypic partners and engage in reciprocal competition with diverging outcomes. This article sheds light on the emerging complexity of cell competition by highlighting recent studies that unveil its context dependency. Finally, we propose that tissue histomorphology implies a crucial role for cell competition at tumor invasion fronts particularly in metastases, warranting increased attention in future studies.
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