Deciphering breast cancer: from biology to the clinic

E Nolan, GJ Lindeman, JE Visvader - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women, reflecting
profound disease heterogeneity, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance. Over the last …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

Insights into molecular classifications of triple-negative breast cancer: improving patient selection for treatment

AC Garrido-Castro, NU Lin, K Polyak - Cancer discovery, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most challenging breast cancer subtype
to treat. To date, therapies directed to specific molecular targets have rarely achieved …

Clinical implications of intratumor heterogeneity: challenges and opportunities

S Ramón y Cajal, M Sesé, C Capdevila… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
In this review, we highlight the role of intratumoral heterogeneity, focusing on the clinical and
biological ramifications this phenomenon poses. Intratumoral heterogeneity arises through …

Unravelling subclonal heterogeneity and aggressive disease states in TNBC through single-cell RNA-seq

M Karaayvaz, S Cristea, SM Gillespie, AP Patel… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype characterized by extensive
intratumoral heterogeneity. To investigate the underlying biology, we conducted single-cell …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic evolution of breast cancer metastasis and relapse

LR Yates, S Knappskog, D Wedge, JHR Farmery… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Patterns of genomic evolution between primary and metastatic breast cancer have not been
studied in large numbers, despite patients with metastatic breast cancer having dismal …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer genome evolutionary trajectories in metastasis

NJ Birkbak, N McGranahan - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Metastatic cancer is a major cause of death and remains largely incurable. A better
understanding of metastasis is therefore desperately needed to improve prognosis for late …

Understanding and overcoming tumor heterogeneity in metastatic breast cancer treatment

N Pasha, NC Turner - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Rational development of targeted therapies has revolutionized metastatic breast cancer
outcomes, although resistance to treatment remains a major challenge. Advances in …

Association of cell-free DNA tumor fraction and somatic copy number alterations with survival in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer

DG Stover, HA Parsons, G Ha, SS Freeman… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) offers the potential for minimally invasive genome-wide
profiling of tumor alterations without tumor biopsy and may be associated with patient …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of metastasis: new tools and insights

P Gui, TG Bivona - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Metastasis is an evolutionary process occurring across multiple organs and timescales. Due
to its continuous and dynamic nature, this multifaceted process has been challenging to …