Tumor metastasis: moving new biological insights into the clinic

L Wan, K Pantel, Y Kang - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
As the culprit behind most cancer-related deaths, metastasis is the ultimate challenge in our
effort to fight cancer as a life-threatening disease. The explosive growth of metastasis …

Mechanisms of metastasis

NH Ha, F Faraji, KW Hunter - Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery: An Elusive …, 2013 - Springer
Metastatic disease is the culmination of cancer and its most common life-threatening
manifestation. The highly complex process by which cancer cells disseminate to and …

Genetic insights into the morass of metastatic heterogeneity

KW Hunter, R Amin, S Deasy, NH Ha… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Tumour heterogeneity poses a substantial problem for the clinical management of cancer.
Somatic evolution of the cancer genome results in genetically distinct subclones in the …

Soft sweeps are the dominant mode of adaptation in the human genome

DR Schrider, AD Kern - Molecular biology and evolution, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The degree to which adaptation in recent human evolution shapes genetic variation remains
controversial. This is in part due to the limited evidence in humans for classic “hard selective …

Platelets promote metastasis via binding tumor CD97 leading to bidirectional signaling that coordinates transendothelial migration

Y Ward, R Lake, F Faraji, J Sperger, P Martin, C Gilliard… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Tumor cells initiate platelet activation leading to the secretion of bioactive molecules, which
promote metastasis. Platelet receptors on tumors have not been well-characterized …

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition leads to NK cell–mediated metastasis-specific immunosurveillance in lung cancer

PJ Chockley, J Chen, G Chen, DG Beer… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
During epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) epithelial cancer cells transdifferentiate into
highly motile, invasive, mesenchymal-like cells, giving rise to disseminating tumor cells. Few …

Breast cancer dormancy: need for clinically relevant models to address current gaps in knowledge

GG Bushnell, AP Deshmukh, P den Hollander… - NPJ breast …, 2021 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the USA. Although advances in
treatment over the past several decades have significantly improved the outlook for this …

Melanoma metastasis: new concepts and evolving paradigms

WE Damsky, N Theodosakis, M Bosenberg - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
Melanoma progression is typically depicted as a linear and stepwise process in which
metastasis occurs relatively late in disease progression. Significant evidence suggests that …

[HTML][HTML] CADM1 inhibits ovarian cancer cell proliferation and migration by potentially regulating the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway

X Si, F Xu, F Xu, M Wei, Y Ge, S Chenge - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that cell adhesion molecule 1 (CADM1), an immunoglobulin
superfamily member, is frequently inactivated but functions as a tumor suppressor in many …

Immunological consequences of epithelial–mesenchymal transition in tumor progression

PJ Chockley, VG Keshamouni - The Journal of Immunology, 2016 - journals.aai.org
Microenvironments that tumor cells encounter are different during the stages of cancer
progression—primary tumor, metastasis, and at the metastatic site. This suggests potential …