Organoids in cancer research

J Drost, H Clevers - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The recent advances in in vitro 3D culture technologies, such as organoids, have opened
new avenues for the development of novel, more physiological human cancer models. Such …

Insights into molecular classifications of triple-negative breast cancer: improving patient selection for treatment

AC Garrido-Castro, NU Lin, K Polyak - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most challenging breast cancer subtype
to treat. To date, therapies directed to specific molecular targets have rarely achieved …

Adjuvant Olaparib for Patients with BRCA1- or BRCA2-Mutated Breast Cancer

ANJ Tutt, JE Garber, B Kaufman, G Viale… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Poly (adenosine diphosphate–ribose) polymerase inhibitors target cancers with
defects in homologous recombination repair by synthetic lethality. New therapies are …

Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by genetic change, and the advent of massively parallel sequencing has
enabled systematic documentation of this variation at the whole-genome scale,–. Here we …

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 …

State-of-the-art strategies for targeting the DNA damage response in cancer

PG Pilié, C Tang, GB Mills, TA Yap - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2019 - nature.com
Genomic instability is a key hallmark of cancer that arises owing to defects in the DNA
damage response (DDR) and/or increased replication stress. These alterations promote the …

Molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

EA Collisson, P Bailey, DK Chang… - Nature reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Cancers that appear morphologically similar often have dramatically different clinical
features, respond variably to therapy and have a range of outcomes. Compelling evidence …

TBCRC 048: phase II study of olaparib for metastatic breast cancer and mutations in homologous recombination-related genes

NM Tung, ME Robson, S Ventz… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Olaparib, a poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor (PARPi), is approved
for the treatment of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–negative metastatic …

Clinical and translational advances in ovarian cancer therapy

PA Konstantinopoulos, UA Matulonis - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer is an aggressive disease that is frequently detected at advanced stages and
is initially very responsive to platinum-based chemotherapy. However, the majority of …

Mutational signatures: emerging concepts, caveats and clinical applications

G Koh, A Degasperi, X Zou, S Momen… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing has brought the cancer genomics community into new territory.
Thanks to the sheer power provided by the thousands of mutations present in each patient's …