Circulating tumor cells: biology and clinical significance

D Lin, L Shen, M Luo, K Zhang, J Li, Q Yang… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are tumor cells that have sloughed off the primary tumor and
extravasate into and circulate in the blood. Understanding of the metastatic cascade of CTCs …

Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Lymph node colonization induces tumor-immune tolerance to promote distant metastasis

NE Reticker-Flynn, W Zhang, JA Belk, PA Basto… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
For many solid malignancies, lymph node (LN) involvement represents a harbinger of
distant metastatic disease and, therefore, an important prognostic factor. Beyond its utility as …

[HTML][HTML] Ordered and deterministic cancer genome evolution after p53 loss

T Baslan, JP Morris IV, Z Zhao, J Reyes, YJ Ho… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Although p53 inactivation promotes genomic instability and presents a route to malignancy
for more than half of all human cancers,, the patterns through which heterogenous TP53 …

Liquid biopsy enters the clinic—implementation issues and future challenges

M Ignatiadis, GW Sledge, SS Jeffrey - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Historically, studies of disseminated tumour cells in bone marrow and circulating tumour
cells in peripheral blood have provided crucial insights into cancer biology and the …

[HTML][HTML] Current therapy and drug resistance in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

M Cai, XL Song, XA Li, M Chen, J Guo, DH Yang… - Drug Resistance …, 2023 - Elsevier
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), especially metastatic castration-resistant
prostate cancer (mCRPC) is one of the most prevalent malignancies and main cause of …

Delineating copy number and clonal substructure in human tumors from single-cell transcriptomes

R Gao, S Bai, YC Henderson, Y Lin, A Schalck… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis is widely used to study human tumors. However, it
remains challenging to distinguish normal cell types in the tumor microenvironment from …

Applications of single-cell sequencing in cancer research: progress and perspectives

Y Lei, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, B Zhang, J Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Single-cell sequencing, including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics and
metabolomics sequencing, is a powerful tool to decipher the cellular and molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Telomeres: history, health, and hallmarks of aging

D Chakravarti, KA LaBella, RA DePinho - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The escalating social and economic burden of an aging world population has placed aging
research at center stage. The hallmarks of aging comprise diverse molecular mechanisms …

Breast cancer as an example of tumour heterogeneity and tumour cell plasticity during malignant progression

F Lüönd, S Tiede, G Christofori - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneity within a tumour increases its ability to adapt to constantly changing
constraints, but adversely affects a patient's prognosis, therapy response and clinical …