Cancer cell plasticity during tumor progression, metastasis and response to therapy

A Pérez-González, K Bévant, C Blanpain - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cell plasticity represents the ability of cells to be reprogrammed and to change their fate and
identity, enabling homeostasis restoration and tissue regeneration following damage. Cell …

Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

H **, L Wang, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, elucidation of the genetic defects that underlie cancer has
resulted in a plethora of novel targeted cancer drugs. Although these agents can initially be …

Epigenetics as a mediator of plasticity in cancer

AP Feinberg, A Levchenko - Science, 2023 - science.org
The concept of an epigenetic landscape describing potential cellular fates arising from
pluripotent cells, first advanced by Conrad Waddington, has evolved in light of experiments …

Cycling cancer persister cells arise from lineages with distinct programs

Y Oren, M Tsabar, MS Cuoco, L Amir-Zilberstein… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Non-genetic mechanisms have recently emerged as important drivers of cancer therapy
failure, where some cancer cells can enter a reversible drug-tolerant persister state in …

Tumor cell plasticity in targeted therapy-induced resistance: mechanisms and new strategies

ZD Shi, K Pang, ZX Wu, Y Dong, L Hao… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the success of targeted therapies in cancer treatment, therapy-induced resistance
remains a major obstacle to a complete cure. Tumor cells evade treatments and relapse via …

Non-genetic mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in cancer

JC Marine, SJ Dawson, MA Dawson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic resistance continues to be an indominable foe in our ambition for curative
cancer treatment. Recent insights into the molecular determinants of acquired treatment …

Glioblastoma in adults: a Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and European Society of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) consensus review on current management and future …

PY Wen, M Weller, EQ Lee, BM Alexander… - Neuro …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Glioblastomas are the most common form of malignant primary brain tumor and an important
cause of morbidity and mortality. In recent years there have been important advances in …

[HTML][HTML] Colorectal cancer cells enter a diapause-like DTP state to survive chemotherapy

SK Rehman, J Haynes, E Collignon, KR Brown… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer cells enter a reversible drug-tolerant persister (DTP) state to evade death from
chemotherapy and targeted agents. It is increasingly appreciated that DTPs are important …

Intratumor heterogeneity: the rosetta stone of therapy resistance

A Marusyk, M Janiszewska, K Polyak - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Advances in our understanding of molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis have translated
into knowledge-based therapies directed against specific oncogenic signaling targets …

Integrating genetic and non-genetic determinants of cancer evolution by single-cell multi-omics

AS Nam, R Chaligne, DA Landau - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer represents an evolutionary process through which growing malignant populations
genetically diversify, leading to tumour progression, relapse and resistance to therapy. In …