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 …

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 …

Advances in PET imaging of cancer

J Schwenck, D Sonanini, JM Cotton… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular imaging has experienced enormous advancements in the areas of imaging
technology, imaging probe and contrast development, and data quality, as well as machine …

Progression from ductal carcinoma in situ to invasive breast cancer: molecular features and clinical significance

J Wang, B Li, M Luo, J Huang, K Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) represents pre-invasive breast carcinoma. In untreated
cases, 25–60% DCIS progress to invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). The challenge lies in …

A human breast cancer-derived xenograft and organoid platform for drug discovery and precision oncology

KP Guillen, M Fujita, AJ Butterfield, SD Scherer… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Models that recapitulate the complexity of human tumors are urgently needed to
develop more effective cancer therapies. We report a bank of human patient-derived …

Strategies to enhance drug delivery to solid tumors by harnessing the EPR effects and alternative targeting mechanisms

Y Zi, K Yang, J He, Z Wu, J Liu, W Zhang - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect has been recognized as the
central paradigm in tumor-targeted delivery in the last decades. In the wake of this concept …

Current approaches to the management of brain metastases

JH Suh, R Kotecha, ST Chao, MS Ahluwalia… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Brain metastases are a very common manifestation of cancer that have historically been
approached as a single disease entity given the uniform association with poor clinical …

The genomic landscape of endocrine-resistant advanced breast cancers

P Razavi, MT Chang, G Xu, C Bandlamudi, DS Ross… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
We integrated the genomic sequencing of 1,918 breast cancers, including 1,501 hormone
receptor-positive tumors, with detailed clinical information and treatment outcomes. In 692 …

Tumour heterogeneity and metastasis at single-cell resolution

DA Lawson, K Kessenbrock, RT Davis… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Tumours comprise a heterogeneous collection of cells with distinct genetic and phenotypic
properties that can differentially promote progression, metastasis and drug resistance …

Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor

SMA Islam, M Díaz-Gay, Y Wu, M Barnes, R Vangara… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Mutational signature analysis is commonly performed in cancer genomic studies. Here, we
present SigProfilerExtractor, an automated tool for de novo extraction of mutational …