Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins

A Jassim, EP Rahrmann, BD Simons… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer has been a leading cause of death for decades. This dismal statistic has increased
efforts to prevent the disease or to detect it early, when treatment is less invasive, relatively …

Intratumoural microbiota: a new frontier in cancer development and therapy

Y Cao, H **a, X Tan, C Shi, Y Ma, D Meng… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Human microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, play key roles in several
physiological and pathological processes. Some studies discovered that tumour tissues …

Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

Radiation therapy enhances immunotherapy response in microsatellite stable colorectal and pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a phase II trial

AR Parikh, A Szabolcs, JN Allen, JW Clark, JY Wo… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Overcoming intrinsic resistance to immune checkpoint blockade for microsatellite stable
(MSS) colorectal cancer (CRC) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains …

Fusobacterium nucleatum and cancer

T Alon‐Maimon, O Mandelboim… - Periodontology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence demonstrates that the oral pathobiont Fusobacterium nucleatum is
involved in the progression of an increasing number of tumors types. Thus far, the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Melanoma and microbiota: Current understanding and future directions

B Routy, T Jackson, L Mählmann, CK Baumgartner… - Cancer cell, 2024 - cell.com
Over the last decade, the composition of the gut microbiota has been found to correlate with
the outcomes of cancer patients treated with immunotherapy. Accumulating evidence points …

Gene therapy for liver diseases—progress and challenges

N Zabaleta, C Unzu, ND Weber… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Gene therapy is poised to revolutionize modern medicine, with seemingly unlimited potential
for treating and curing genetic disorders. For otherwise incurable indications, including most …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer analyses reveal cancer-type-specific fungal ecologies and bacteriome interactions

L Narunsky-Haziza, GD Sepich-Poore, I Livyatan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cancer-microbe associations have been explored for centuries, but cancer-associated fungi
have rarely been examined. Here, we comprehensively characterize the cancer mycobiome …

Understanding human health through metatranscriptomics

T Ojala, E Kankuri, M Kankainen - Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2023 - cell.com
Metatranscriptomics has revolutionized our ability to explore and understand transcriptional
programs in microbial communities. Moreover, it has enabled us to gain deeper and more …