Cancer stem cells revisited

E Batlle, H Clevers - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The cancer stem cell (CSC) concept was proposed four decades ago, and states that tumor
growth, analogous to the renewal of healthy tissues, is fueled by small numbers of dedicated …

Targeting transcription factors for cancer treatment

M Lambert, S Jambon, S Depauw… - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Transcription factors are involved in a large number of human diseases such as cancers for
which they account for about 20% of all oncogenes identified so far. For long time, with the …

Transcription factors in cancer development and therapy

K Vishnoi, N Viswakarma, A Rana, B Rana - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a multi-step process and requires constitutive expression/activation of
transcription factors (TFs) for growth and survival. Many of the TFs reported so far are critical …

Precancer atlas to drive precision prevention trials

A Spira, MB Yurgelun, L Alexandrov, A Rao, R Bejar… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Cancer development is a complex process driven by inherited and acquired molecular and
cellular alterations. Prevention is the holy grail of cancer elimination, but making this a reality …

Endometrial cancer stem cells: role, characterization and therapeutic implications

G Giannone, L Attademo, G Scotto, S Genta, E Ghisoni… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most frequent gynecological cancer. In patients with relapsed
and advanced disease, prognosis is still dismal and development of resistance is common …

Immune therapies in acute myeloid leukemia: a focus on monoclonal antibodies and immune checkpoint inhibitors

R Assi, H Kantarjian, F Ravandi… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Immune therapies in acute myeloid leukemia: a focus on monoc... : Current Opinion in
Hematology Immune therapies in acute myeloid leukemia: a focus on monoclonal antibodies …

Estimating the number of genetic mutations (hits) required for carcinogenesis based on the distribution of somatic mutations

R Anandakrishnan, RT Varghese… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Individual instances of cancer are primarily a result of a combination of a small number of
genetic mutations (hits). Knowing the number of such mutations is a prerequisite for …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

J Nordlund, AC Syvänen - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common malignancy in children. ALL arises
from the malignant transformation of progenitor B-and T-cells in the bone marrow into …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts: epigenetic regulation and therapeutic intervention in breast cancer

YT Lee, YJ Tan, M Falasca, CE Oon - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Drug resistance and insensitivity to treatments are the main challenges in
breast cancer therapy. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are heterogeneous stromal …

The metabolic flexibility of quiescent CSC: implications for chemotherapy resistance

K Chen, C Zhang, S Ling, R Wei, J Wang, X Xu - Cell death & disease, 2021 - nature.com
Quiescence has been observed in stem cells (SCs), including adult SCs and cancer SCs
(CSCs). Conventional chemotherapies mostly target proliferating cancer cells, while the …