Molecular pathogenesis and systemic therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma

JM Llovet, R Pinyol, RK Kelley, A El-Khoueiry… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains one of the most prevalent and deadliest cancers.
The poor outcome associated with HCC is dramatically changing due to the advent of …

Global epidemiology and genetics of hepatocellular carcinoma

MR Toh, EYT Wong, SH Wong, AWT Ng, LH Loo… - Gastroenterology, 2023 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading cancers worldwide. Classically, HCC
develops in genetically susceptible individuals who are exposed to risk factors, especially in …

Intratumoral heterogeneity in cancer progression and response to immunotherapy

I Vitale, E Shema, S Loi, L Galluzzi - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Most (if not all) tumors emerge and progress under a strong evolutionary pressure imposed
by trophic, metabolic, immunological, and therapeutic factors. The relative impact of these …

The history and advances in cancer immunotherapy: understanding the characteristics of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and their therapeutic implications

Y Zhang, Z Zhang - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and rejuvenated the field of tumor
immunology. Several types of immunotherapy, including adoptive cell transfer (ACT) and …

AlphaFold accelerates artificial intelligence powered drug discovery: efficient discovery of a novel CDK20 small molecule inhibitor

F Ren, X Ding, M Zheng, M Korzinkin, X Cai, W Zhu… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) has been considered a revolutionary change in
drug discovery and development. In 2020, the AlphaFold computer program predicted …

Inflamed and non-inflamed classes of HCC: a revised immunogenomic classification

C Montironi, F Castet, PK Haber, R Pinyol… - Gut, 2023 - gut.bmj.com
Objective We previously reported a characterisation of the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
immune contexture and described an immune-specific class. We now aim to further …

Single-cell RNA sequencing shows the immunosuppressive landscape and tumor heterogeneity of HBV-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

DWH Ho, YM Tsui, LK Chan, KMF Sze, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Interaction between tumor cells and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment is
important in cancer development. Immune cells interact with the tumor cells to shape this …

Multiregional single-cell dissection of tumor and immune cells reveals stable lock-and-key features in liver cancer

L Ma, S Heinrich, L Wang, FL Keggenhoff… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Intratumor heterogeneity may result from the evolution of tumor cells and their continuous
interactions with the tumor microenvironment which collectively drives tumorigenesis …

Single‐cell RNA sequencing in cancer research

Y Zhang, D Wang, M Peng, L Tang, J Ouyang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), a technology that analyzes transcriptomes of
complex tissues at single-cell levels, can identify differential gene expression and epigenetic …

Comprehensive analysis of spatial architecture in primary liver cancer

R Wu, W Guo, X Qiu, S Wang, C Sui, Q Lian, J Wu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Heterogeneity is the major challenge for cancer prevention and therapy. Here, we first
constructed high-resolution spatial transcriptomes of primary liver cancers (PLCs) containing …