Cancer stem cells—origins and biomarkers: perspectives for targeted personalized therapies

L Walcher, AK Kistenmacher, H Suo, R Kitte… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The use of biomarkers in diagnosis, therapy and prognosis has gained increasing interest
over the last decades. In particular, the analysis of biomarkers in cancer patients within the …

Small-cell lung cancer: what we know, what we need to know and the path forward

AF Gazdar, PA Bunn, JD Minna - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a deadly tumour accounting for approximately 15% of lung
cancers and is pathologically, molecularly, biologically and clinically very different from other …

Single-cell analyses reveal increased intratumoral heterogeneity after the onset of therapy resistance in small-cell lung cancer

CA Stewart, CM Gay, Y **, S Sivajothi… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
The natural history of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) includes rapid evolution from
chemosensitivity to chemoresistance, although mechanisms underlying this evolution …

[HTML][HTML] Lung cancers: molecular characterization, clonal heterogeneity and evolution, and cancer stem cells

U Testa, G Castelli, E Pelosi - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer causes the largest number of cancer-related deaths in the world. Most (85%) of
lung cancers are classified as non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small-cell lung …

Crosstalk between small-cell lung cancer cells and astrocytes mimics brain development to promote brain metastasis

F Qu, SC Brough, W Michno, CJ Madubata… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Brain metastases represent an important clinical problem for patients with small-cell lung
cancer (SCLC). However, the mechanisms underlying SCLC growth in the brain remain …

Intratumoural heterogeneity generated by Notch signalling promotes small-cell lung cancer

JS Lim, A Ibaseta, MM Fischer, B Cancilla, G O'Young… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The Notch signalling pathway mediates cell fate decisions, and is tumour suppressive or
oncogenic depending on the context,. During lung development, Notch pathway activation …

A biobank of small cell lung cancer CDX models elucidates inter-and intratumoral phenotypic heterogeneity

KL Simpson, R Stoney, KK Frese, N Simms, W Rowe… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Although small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is treated as a homogeneous disease, biopsies and
preclinical models reveal heterogeneity in transcriptomes and morphology. SCLC subtypes …

Vasculogenic mimicry in small cell lung cancer

SC Williamson, RL Metcalf, F Trapani, S Mohan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is characterized by prevalent circulating tumour cells (CTCs),
early metastasis and poor prognosis. We show that SCLC patients (37/38) have rare CTC …

Biology and evolution of poorly differentiated neuroendocrine tumors

DS Rickman, H Beltran, F Demichelis, MA Rubin - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Neuroendocrine (NE) cancers are a diverse group of neoplasms typically diagnosed and
treated on the basis of their site of origin. This Perspective focuses on advances in our …

Dynamic variations in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), ATM, and SLFN11 govern response to PARP inhibitors and cisplatin in small cell lung cancer

CA Stewart, P Tong, RJ Cardnell, T Sen, L Li… - …, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, with a 5-year
survival< 7%. A major barrier to progress is the absence of predictive biomarkers for …