Navigating CAR-T cells through the solid-tumour microenvironment

AJ Hou, LC Chen, YY Chen - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
The adoptive transfer of T cells that are engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) has shown remarkable success in treating B cell malignancies but only limited …

Extrachromosomal DNA in cancer

X Yan, P Mischel, H Chang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) has recently been recognized as a major contributor to
cancer pathogenesis that is identified in most cancer types and is associated with poor …

Pan-cancer whole-genome comparison of primary and metastatic solid tumours

F Martínez-Jiménez, A Movasati, SR Brunner… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Metastatic cancer remains an almost inevitably lethal disease,–. A better understanding of
disease progression and response to therapies therefore remains of utmost importance …

Glioblastoma evolution and heterogeneity from a 3D whole-tumor perspective

R Mathur, Q Wang, PG Schupp, A Nikolic, S Hilz… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Treatment failure for the lethal brain tumor glioblastoma (GBM) is attributed to intratumoral
heterogeneity and tumor evolution. We utilized 3D neuronavigation during surgical resection …

Extrachromosomal DNA in the cancerous transformation of Barrett's oesophagus

J Luebeck, AWT Ng, PC Galipeau, X Li, CA Sanchez… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Oncogene amplification on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) drives the evolution of tumours
and their resistance to treatment, and is associated with poor outcomes for patients with …

SynNotch-CAR T cells overcome challenges of specificity, heterogeneity, and persistence in treating glioblastoma

JH Choe, PB Watchmaker, MS Simic… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Treatment of solid cancers with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells is plagued by the
lack of ideal target antigens that are both absolutely tumor specific and homogeneously …

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 …

Intratumor heterogeneity: the rosetta stone of therapy resistance

A Marusyk, M Janiszewska, K Polyak - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Advances in our understanding of molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis have translated
into knowledge-based therapies directed against specific oncogenic signaling targets …

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 …