Biology, vulnerabilities and clinical applications of circulating tumour cells

A Ring, BD Nguyen-Sträuli, A Wicki, N Aceto - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, exceptional technological advances have enabled the identification and
interrogation of rare circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from blood samples of patients, leading …

Hypoxia and the tumor microenvironment

Y Li, L Zhao, XF Li - Technology in cancer research & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Hypoxia is an important feature of the tumor microenvironment, and is closely associated
with cell proliferation, angiogenesis, metabolism and the tumor immune response. All these …

Defining the hallmarks of metastasis

DR Welch, DR Hurst - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer morbidity and mortality. The process involves a
complex interplay between intrinsic tumor cell properties as well as interactions between …

[HTML][HTML] Breast cancer development and progression: Risk factors, cancer stem cells, signaling pathways, genomics, and molecular pathogenesis

Y Feng, M Spezia, S Huang, C Yuan, Z Zeng, L Zhang… - Genes & diseases, 2018 - Elsevier
As the most commonly occurring cancer in women worldwide, breast cancer poses a
formidable public health challenge on a global scale. Breast cancer consists of a group of …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell lineage tracing of metastatic cancer reveals selection of hybrid EMT states

KP Simeonov, CN Byrns, ML Clark, RJ Norgard… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The underpinnings of cancer metastasis remain poorly understood, in part due to a lack of
tools for probing their emergence at high resolution. Here we present macsGESTALT, an …

The immune contexture in cancer prognosis and treatment

WH Fridman, L Zitvogel, C Sautès–Fridman… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2017 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is currently the most rapidly advancing area of clinical oncology, and
provides the unprecedented opportunity to effectively treat, and even cure, several …

Emerging biological principles of metastasis

AW Lambert, DR Pattabiraman, RA Weinberg - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Metastases account for the great majority of cancer-associated deaths, yet this complex
process remains the least understood aspect of cancer biology. As the body of research …

Metastatic colonization by circulating tumour cells

J Massagué, AC Obenauf - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Metastasis is the main cause of death in people with cancer. To colonize distant organs,
circulating tumour cells must overcome many obstacles through mechanisms that we are …

Multi-cancer analysis of clonality and the timing of systemic spread in paired primary tumors and metastases

Z Hu, Z Li, Z Ma, C Curtis - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer-related deaths, but the natural history, clonal
evolution and impact of treatment are poorly understood. We analyzed whole-exome …

Microenvironment-induced PTEN loss by exosomal microRNA primes brain metastasis outgrowth

L Zhang, S Zhang, J Yao, FJ Lowery, Q Zhang… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The development of life-threatening cancer metastases at distant organs requires
disseminated tumour cells' adaptation to, and co-evolution with, the drastically different …