Intratumoral heterogeneity in cancer progression and response to immunotherapy

I Vitale, E Shema, S Loi, L Galluzzi - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Most (if not all) tumors emerge and progress under a strong evolutionary pressure imposed
by trophic, metabolic, immunological, and therapeutic factors. The relative impact of these …

Management of glioblastoma: State of the art and future directions

AC Tan, DM Ashley, GY López… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor. Overall, the prognosis for
patients with this disease is poor, with a median survival of< 2 years. There is a slight …

Transcriptome analysis reveals tumor microenvironment changes in glioblastoma

Y Hoogstrate, K Draaisma, SA Ghisai, L van Hijfte… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A better understanding of transcriptional evolution of IDH-wild-type glioblastoma may be
crucial for treatment optimization. Here, we perform RNA sequencing (RNA-seq)(n= 322 test …

Glioma progression is shaped by genetic evolution and microenvironment interactions

FS Varn, KC Johnson, J Martinek, JT Huse… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The factors driving therapy resistance in diffuse glioma remain poorly understood. To identify
treatment-associated cellular and genetic changes, we analyzed RNA and/or DNA …

Neoantigen quality predicts immunoediting in survivors of pancreatic cancer

M Łuksza, ZM Sethna, LA Rojas, J Lihm, B Bravi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunoediting is a hallmark of cancer that predicts that lymphocytes kill more
immunogenic cancer cells to cause less immunogenic clones to dominate a population …

Glioblastoma in adults: a Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and European Society of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) consensus review on current management and future …

PY Wen, M Weller, EQ Lee, BM Alexander… - Neuro …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Glioblastomas are the most common form of malignant primary brain tumor and an important
cause of morbidity and mortality. In recent years there have been important advances in …

The evolutionary dynamics of extrachromosomal DNA in human cancers

JT Lange, JC Rose, CY Chen, Y Pichugin, L **e… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Oncogene amplification on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is a common event, driving
aggressive tumor growth, drug resistance and shorter survival. Currently, the impact of …

Tumor mutational burden as a predictor of immunotherapy response: is more always better?

JH Strickler, BA Hanks, M Khasraw - Clinical Cancer Research, 2021 - AACR
Immune checkpoint inhibitors, including antibodies that block programmed cell death protein-
1 (PD-1) and PD-L1, have transformed the management of many cancers. However, the …

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 …

The implications of IDH mutations for cancer development and therapy

CJ Pirozzi, H Yan - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Mutations in the genes encoding the cytoplasmic and mitochondrial forms of isocitrate
dehydrogenase (IDH1 and IDH2, respectively; collectively referred to as IDH) are frequently …