The journey from melanocytes to melanoma

PP Centeno, V Pavet, R Marais - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, melanoma has led the field in new cancer treatments, with impressive
gains in on-treatment survival but more modest improvements in overall survival. Melanoma …

Targeting telomeres: advances in telomere maintenance mechanism-specific cancer therapies

J Gao, HA Pickett - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells establish replicative immortality by activating a telomere-maintenance
mechanism (TMM), be it telomerase or the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved pan-cancer microenvironment subtypes predict response to immunotherapy

A Bagaev, N Kotlov, K Nomie, V Svekolkin, A Gafurov… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The clinical use of molecular targeted therapy is rapidly evolving but has primarily focused
on genomic alterations. Transcriptomic analysis offers an opportunity to dissect the …

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

V Girish, AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, CM Scaduto… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most cancers exhibit aneuploidy, but its functional significance in tumor development is
controversial. Here, we describe ReDACT (Restoring Disomy in Aneuploid cells using …

Identification of bacteria-derived HLA-bound peptides in melanoma

S Kalaora, A Nagler, D Nejman, M Alon, C Barbolin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A variety of species of bacteria are known to colonize human tumours,,,,,,,,,–, proliferate
within them and modulate immune function, which ultimately affects the survival of patients …

The effects of exposure to solar radiation on human health

RE Neale, RM Lucas, SN Byrne, L Hollestein… - Photochemical & …, 2023 - Springer
This assessment by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) of the Montreal
Protocol under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) evaluates the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Cutaneous melanoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

O Michielin, ACJ Van Akkooi, PA Ascierto, R Dummer… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines provide updated recommendations on management
of cutaneous melanoma (diagnosis, treatment and follow-up), compiled by a …

Impact of risk factors on early cancer evolution

CE Weeden, W Hill, EL Lim, E Grönroos, C Swanton - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Recent identification of oncogenic cells within healthy tissues and the prevalence of indolent
cancers found incidentally at autopsies reveal a greater complexity in tumor initiation than …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular markers and targets in melanoma

C Teixido, P Castillo, C Martinez-Vila, A Arance, L Alos - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Melanoma develops as a result of several genetic alterations, with UV radiation often acting
as a mutagenic risk factor. Deep knowledge of the molecular signaling pathways of different …

The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, J Kim, NJ Haradhvala, MN Huang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer genomes are caused by multiple mutational processes, each of
which generates a characteristic mutational signature. Here, as part of the Pan-Cancer …