A translational framework to DELIVER nanomedicines to the clinic

P Joyce, CJ Allen, MJ Alonso, M Ashford… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nanomedicines have created a paradigm shift in healthcare. Yet fundamental barriers still
exist that prevent or delay the clinical translation of nanomedicines. Critical hurdles …

Defining the hallmarks of metastasis

DR Welch, DR Hurst - Cancer research, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
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 …

Targeted therapy for head and neck cancer: signaling pathways and clinical studies

Q Li, Y Tie, A Alu, X Ma, H Shi - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Head and neck cancer (HNC) is malignant, genetically complex and difficult to treat and is
the sixth most frequent cancer, with tobacco, alcohol and human papillomavirus being major …

Ewing sarcoma—diagnosis, treatment, clinical challenges and future perspectives

SK Zöllner, JF Amatruda, S Bauer, S Collaud… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ewing sarcoma, a highly aggressive bone and soft-tissue cancer, is considered a prime
example of the paradigms of a translocation-positive sarcoma: a genetically rather simple …

Xenograft and organoid model systems in cancer research

M Bleijs, M van de Wetering, H Clevers, J Drost - The EMBO journal, 2019 - embopress.org
Patient‐derived tumour xenografts and tumour organoids have become important preclinical
model systems for cancer research. Both models maintain key features from their parental …

Sarcoma treatment in the era of molecular medicine

TGP Grünewald, M Alonso, S Avnet… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
Sarcomas are heterogeneous and clinically challenging soft tissue and bone cancers.
Although constituting only 1% of all human malignancies, sarcomas represent the second …

Recent advances in near-infrared II fluorophores for multifunctional biomedical imaging

F Ding, Y Zhan, X Lu, Y Sun - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, owing to unsatisfactory clinical imaging clarity and depths in the living body
for early diagnosis and prognosis, novel imaging modalities with high bioimaging …

Modeling neoplastic disease with spheroids and organoids

M Zanoni, M Cortesi, A Zamagni, C Arienti… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Cancer is a complex disease in which both genetic defects and microenvironmental
components contribute to the development, progression, and metastasization of disease …

Interrogating open issues in cancer precision medicine with patient-derived xenografts

AT Byrne, DG Alférez, F Amant, D Annibali… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) have emerged as an important platform to elucidate new
treatments and biomarkers in oncology. PDX models are used to address clinically relevant …

Tumor heterogeneity: preclinical models, emerging technologies, and future applications

M Proietto, M Crippa, C Damiani, V Pasquale… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Heterogeneity describes the differences among cancer cells within and between tumors. It
refers to cancer cells describing variations in morphology, transcriptional profiles …