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 …

Cancer progression and the invisible phase of metastatic colonization

CA Klein - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Metastatic dissemination occurs very early in the malignant progression of a cancer but the
clinical manifestation of metastases often takes years. In recent decades, 5-year survival of …

Unravelling tumour heterogeneity by single-cell profiling of circulating tumour cells

L Keller, K Pantel - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies have contributed to unravelling tumour heterogeneity, now
considered a hallmark of cancer and one of the main causes of tumour resistance to cancer …

The dormant cancer cell life cycle

TG Phan, PI Croucher - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
The success of targeted therapies and immunotherapies has created optimism that cancers
may be curable. However, not all patients respond, drug resistance is common and many …

Tumour-targeting bacteria engineered to fight cancer

S Zhou, C Gravekamp, D Bermudes, K Liu - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Recent advances in targeted therapy and immunotherapy have once again raised the hope
that a cure might be within reach for many cancer types. Yet, most late-stage cancers are …

A tumor-derived type III collagen-rich ECM niche regulates tumor cell dormancy

JS Di Martino, AR Nobre, C Mondal, I Taha, EF Farias… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells disseminate and seed in distant organs, where they can remain dormant for
many years before forming clinically detectable metastases. Here we studied how …

Quiescent cancer cells resist T cell attack by forming an immunosuppressive niche

P Baldominos, A Barbera-Mourelle, O Barreiro… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Immunotherapy is a promising treatment for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), but
patients relapse, highlighting the need to understand the mechanisms of resistance. We …

Systems biology of cancer metastasis

Y Suhail, MP Cain, K Vanaja, PA Kurywchak… - Cell systems, 2019 - cell.com
Cancer metastasis is no longer viewed as a linear cascade of events but rather as a series
of concurrent, partially overlap** processes, as successfully metastasizing cells assume …

Untangling the web of intratumour heterogeneity

Z Li, M Seehawer, K Polyak - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Intratumour heterogeneity (ITH) is a hallmark of cancer that drives tumour evolution and
disease progression. Technological and computational advances have enabled us to …

Macrophages orchestrate breast cancer early dissemination and metastasis

N Linde, M Casanova-Acebes, MS Sosa… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer cell dissemination during very early stages of breast cancer proceeds through poorly
understood mechanisms. Here we show, in a mouse model of HER2+ breast cancer, that a …