Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells

A van Weverwijk, KE de Visser - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumours display an astonishing variation in the spatial distribution, composition and
activation state of immune cells, which impacts their progression and response to …

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 …

Substitution mutational signatures in whole-genome–sequenced cancers in the UK population

A Degasperi, X Zou, T Dias Amarante… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) permits comprehensive cancer genome analyses,
revealing mutational signatures, imprints of DNA damage, and repair processes that have …

A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes

F Martínez-Jiménez, F Muiños, I Sentís… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A fundamental goal in cancer research is to understand the mechanisms of cell
transformation. This is key to develo** more efficient cancer detection methods and …

Advances in molecular classification and precision oncology in hepatocellular carcinoma

S Rebouissou, JC Nault - Journal of hepatology, 2020 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) arises from hepatocytes through the sequential
accumulation of multiple genomic and epigenomic alterations resulting from Darwinian …

[HTML][HTML] ESMO recommendations on microsatellite instability testing for immunotherapy in cancer, and its relationship with PD-1/PD-L1 expression and tumour …

C Luchini, F Bibeau, MJL Ligtenberg, N Singh… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Cancers with a defective DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) system contain
thousands of mutations most frequently located in monomorphic microsatellites and are …

Comprehensive analysis of mutational signatures reveals distinct patterns and molecular processes across 27 pediatric cancers

V Thatikonda, SMA Islam, RJ Autry, BC Jones… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Analysis of mutational signatures can reveal underlying molecular mechanisms of
the processes that have imprinted the somatic mutations found in cancer genomes. Here, we …

Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 differentially affect the tumor microenvironment and response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy

RM Samstein, C Krishna, X Ma, X Pei, KW Lee… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has improved outcomes for patients with advanced
cancer, but the determinants of response remain poorly understood. Here we report …

ATM in DNA repair in cancer

MH **, DY Oh - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Alterations in DNA damage response (DDR) pathways are hallmarks of cancer. Incorrect
repair of DNA lesions often leads to genomic instability. Ataxia telangiectasia mutated …

Harnessing DNA double-strand break repair for cancer treatment

A Trenner, AA Sartori - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are highly deleterious, with a single unrepaired DSB
being sufficient to trigger cell death. Compared to healthy cells, cancer cells have a higher …