Deciphering breast cancer: from biology to the clinic

E Nolan, GJ Lindeman, JE Visvader - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women, reflecting
profound disease heterogeneity, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance. Over the last …

DNA damage repair: historical perspectives, mechanistic pathways and clinical translation for targeted cancer therapy

R Huang, PK Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic instability is the hallmark of various cancers with the increasing accumulation of
DNA damage. The application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer treatment is …

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 …

Multi-omic machine learning predictor of breast cancer therapy response

SJ Sammut, M Crispin-Ortuzar, SF Chin, E Provenzano… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Breast cancers are complex ecosystems of malignant cells and the tumour
microenvironment. The composition of these tumour ecosystems and interactions within …

The rediscovery of platinum-based cancer therapy

S Rottenberg, C Disler, P Perego - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Platinum (Pt) compounds entered the clinic as anticancer agents when cisplatin was
approved in 1978. More than 40 years later, even in the era of precision medicine and …

Pathogenesis of triple-negative breast cancer

F Derakhshan, JS Reis-Filho - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) encompasses a heterogeneous group of
fundamentally different diseases with different histologic, genomic, and immunologic …

DNA double-strand break repair-pathway choice in somatic mammalian cells

R Scully, A Panday, R Elango, NA Willis - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The major pathways of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair are crucial for maintaining
genomic stability. However, if deployed in an inappropriate cellular context, these same …

Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes

AG Bick, JS Weinstock, SK Nandakumar, CP Fulco… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Age is the dominant risk factor for most chronic human diseases, but the mechanisms
through which ageing confers this risk are largely unknown. The age-related acquisition of …

A living biobank of breast cancer organoids captures disease heterogeneity

N Sachs, J De Ligt, O Kopper, E Gogola, G Bounova… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Breast cancer (BC) comprises multiple distinct subtypes that differ genetically,
pathologically, and clinically. Here, we describe a robust protocol for long-term culturing of …

Awareness and current knowledge of breast cancer

M Akram, M Iqbal, M Daniyal, AU Khan - Biological research, 2017 - Springer
Breast cancer remains a worldwide public health dilemma and is currently the most common
tumour in the globe. Awareness of breast cancer, public attentiveness, and advancement in …