RANKL regulates testicular cancer growth and Denosumab treatment has suppressive effects on GCNIS and advanced seminoma.
Christine Hjorth AndreassenMette LorenzenJohn E NielsenSam Kafai YahyaviBirgitte Grønkær ToftLars R IngerslevChristoffer ClemmensenLene Juel RasmussenCarsten BokemeyerAnders JuulAnne JørgensenMartin Blomberg JensenPublished in: British journal of cancer (2022)
This study shows that the RANKL signalling system is expressed in GCNIS and seminoma where RANKL inhibition suppresses tumour growth in vitro and in vivo. Future studies are needed to determine whether RANKL is important for the malignant transformation or transition from GCNIS to invasive tumours.