Tumor evolution: Linear, branching, neutral or punctuated?

A Davis, R Gao, N Navin - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Intratumor heterogeneity has been widely reported in human cancers, but our knowledge of
how this genetic diversity emerges over time remains limited. A central challenge in studying …

Rethinking ovarian cancer: recommendations for improving outcomes

S Vaughan, JI Coward, RC Bast Jr, A Berchuck… - Nature Reviews …, 2011‏ - nature.com
There have been major advances in our understanding of the cellular and molecular biology
of the human malignancies that are collectively referred to as ovarian cancer. At a recent …

The evolution of tumour phylogenetics: principles and practice

R Schwartz, AA Schäffer - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017‏ - nature.com
Rapid advances in high-throughput sequencing and a growing realization of the importance
of evolutionary theory to cancer genomics have led to a proliferation of phylogenetic studies …

Cancer evolution: mathematical models and computational inference

N Beerenwinkel, RF Schwarz, M Gerstung… - Systematic …, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Cancer is a somatic evolutionary process characterized by the accumulation of mutations,
which contribute to tumor growth, clinical progression, immune escape, and drug resistance …

Intra-tumor genetic heterogeneity and mortality in head and neck cancer: analysis of data from the Cancer Genome Atlas

EA Mroz, AM Tward, RJ Hammon, Y Ren… - PLoS …, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Although the involvement of intra-tumor genetic heterogeneity in tumor
progression, treatment resistance, and metastasis is established, genetic heterogeneity is …

Metabolic adaptations in cancer stem cells

UP Yadav, T Singh, P Kumar, P Sharma, H Kaur… - Frontiers in …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small and elusive subpopulation of self-renewing cancer
cells with remarkable ability to initiate, propagate, and spread the malignant disease. In …

The influence of subclonal resistance mutations on targeted cancer therapy

MW Schmitt, LA Loeb, JJ Salk - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2016‏ - nature.com
Clinical oncology is being revolutionized by the increasing use of molecularly targeted
therapies. This paradigm holds great promise for improving cancer treatment; however …

Insight into the heterogeneity of breast cancer through next-generation sequencing

HG Russnes, N Navin, J Hicks… - The Journal of clinical …, 2011‏ - jci.org
Rapid and sophisticated improvements in molecular analysis have allowed us to sequence
whole human genomes as well as cancer genomes, and the findings suggest that we may …

Cancer stem cells (CSCs), cervical CSCs and targeted therapies

R Huang, EK Rofstad - Oncotarget, 2016‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Accumulating evidence has shown that cancer stem cells (CSCs) have a tumour-initiating
capacity and play crucial roles in tumour metastasis, relapse and chemo/radio-resistance …

Phylogenetic quantification of intra-tumour heterogeneity

RF Schwarz, A Trinh, B Sipos, JD Brenton… - PLoS computational …, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Intra-tumour genetic heterogeneity is the result of ongoing evolutionary change within each
cancer. The expansion of genetically distinct sub-clonal populations may explain the …