Metastasis

S Gerstberger, Q Jiang, K Ganesh - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Most cancer-associated deaths occur due to metastasis, yet our understanding of metastasis
as an evolving, heterogeneous, systemic disease and of how to effectively treat it is still …

Circulating tumor cells: biology and clinical significance

D Lin, L Shen, M Luo, K Zhang, J Li, Q Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are tumor cells that have sloughed off the primary tumor and
extravasate into and circulate in the blood. Understanding of the metastatic cascade of CTCs …

Biology, vulnerabilities and clinical applications of circulating tumour cells

A Ring, BD Nguyen-Sträuli, A Wicki, N Aceto - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, exceptional technological advances have enabled the identification and
interrogation of rare circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from blood samples of patients, leading …

Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment

R Polak, ET Zhang, CJ Kuo - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
The development of neoplasia involves a complex and continuous interplay between
malignantly transformed cells and the tumour microenvironment (TME). Cancer …

Targeting metastatic cancer

K Ganesh, J Massague - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite recent therapeutic advances in cancer treatment, metastasis remains the principal
cause of cancer death. Recent work has uncovered the unique biology of metastasis …

Linking EMT programmes to normal and neoplastic epithelial stem cells

AW Lambert, RA Weinberg - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Epithelial stem cells serve critical physiological functions in the generation, maintenance
and repair of diverse tissues through their ability to self-renew and spawn more specialized …

EMT, MET, plasticity, and tumor metastasis

B Bakir, AM Chiarella, JR Pitarresi, AK Rustgi - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer cell identity and plasticity are required in transition states, such as epithelial–
mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal–epithelial transition (MET), in primary …

Diversity and versatility of p38 kinase signalling in health and disease

B Canovas, AR Nebreda - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
The ability of cells to deal with different types of stressful situations in a precise and
coordinated manner is key for survival and involves various signalling networks. Over the …

The lingering mysteries of metastatic recurrence in breast cancer

AI Riggio, KE Varley, AL Welm - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Despite being the hallmark of cancer that is responsible for the highest number of deaths,
very little is known about the biology of metastasis. Metastatic disease typically manifests …

Wnt signaling in breast cancer: biological mechanisms, challenges and opportunities

X Xu, M Zhang, F Xu, S Jiang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Wnt signaling is a highly conserved signaling pathway that plays a critical role in controlling
embryonic and organ development, as well as cancer progression. Genome-wide …