What is the significance of variant histology in urothelial carcinoma?

N Lobo, SF Shariat, CC Guo, MI Fernandez… - European urology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Context Urothelial carcinoma can exhibit a wide range of variant morphologies. Many
variants present diagnostic challenges and carry clinical implications that inform prognosis …

Genomic heterogeneity in bladder cancer: challenges and possible solutions to improve outcomes

JJ Meeks, H Al-Ahmadie, BM Faltas… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Histological and molecular analyses of urothelial carcinoma often reveal intratumoural and
intertumoural heterogeneity at the genomic, transcriptional and cellular levels. Despite the …

Variants and new entities of bladder cancer

A Lopez‐Beltran, V Henriques, R Montironi… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pathological evaluation of bladder cancer typically reveals great tumour heterogeneity, and
therefore the common observation of urothelial carcinoma exhibiting a wide variety of …

Transcription Regulation of the Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase (hTERT) Gene

MK Ramlee, J Wang, WX Toh, S Li - Genes, 2016 - mdpi.com
Embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells have the ability to maintain their
telomere length via expression of an enzymatic complex called telomerase. Similarly, more …

[PDF][PDF] Urothelial carcinoma: Divergent differentiation and morphologic subtypes

J Gandhi, JF Chen, H Al-Ahmadie - Surgical pathology clinics, 2022 - Elsevier
Identifying the histologic subtypes and divergent differentiation in bladder cancer is
important to establish the correct diagnosis and classification and may also be clinically …

Report from the International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) consultation conference on molecular pathology of urogenital cancers. II. Molecular pathology of …

JI Warrick, MA Knowles, A Yves… - The American Journal …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Abstract During the 2019 International Society of Urological Pathology Consultation
Conference on Molecular Pathology of Urogenital Cancer, the Working Group on Bladder …

Mutations in TERT promoter and FGFR3 and telomere length in bladder cancer

I Hosen, PS Rachakonda, B Heidenreich… - … journal of cancer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations in the promoter of the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and fibroblast
growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) genes constitute the most recurrent somatic alterations in …

Biological and clinical perspectives of TERT promoter mutation detection on bladder cancer diagnosis and management

L Cheng, S Zhang, M Wang, A Lopez-Beltran - Human Pathology, 2023 - Elsevier
The telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) promoter mutations are associated with
increased TERT mRNA and TERT protein levels, telomerase activity, and shorter but stable …

Precision medicine in bladder cancer: present challenges and future directions

SK Mohanty, A Lobo, SK Mishra, L Cheng - Journal of Personalized …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bladder cancer (BC) is characterized by significant histopathologic and molecular
heterogeneity. The discovery of molecular pathways and knowledge of cellular mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Variant histology in bladder cancer: diagnostic and clinical implications

AJ Black, PC Black - Translational cancer research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Urothelial carcinoma differentiates into variant histological subtypes in approximately 25% of
cases. Since every histological variant has unique characteristics, including metastatic …