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 …

A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes

F Martínez-Jiménez, F Muiños, I Sentís… - Nature Reviews …, 2020‏ - nature.com
A fundamental goal in cancer research is to understand the mechanisms of cell
transformation. This is key to develo** more efficient cancer detection methods and …

Robust map** of spatiotemporal trajectories and cell–cell interactions in healthy and diseased tissues

D Pham, X Tan, B Balderson, J Xu, LF Grice… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies generate multiple data types from biological
samples, namely gene expression, physical distance between data points, and/or tissue …

Neoadjuvant therapy with immune checkpoint blockade, antiangiogenesis, and chemotherapy for locally advanced gastric cancer

S Li, W Yu, F **e, H Luo, Z Liu, W Lv, D Shi… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Despite neoadjuvant/conversion chemotherapy, the prognosis of cT4a/bN+ gastric cancer is
poor. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and antiangiogenic agents have shown activity in …

Cancer therapy shapes the fitness landscape of clonal hematopoiesis

KL Bolton, RN Ptashkin, T Gao, L Braunstein… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Acquired mutations are pervasive across normal tissues. However, understanding of the
processes that drive transformation of certain clones to cancer is limited. Here we study this …

Tumor microenvironment enriches the stemness features: the architectural event of therapy resistance and metastasis

P Nallasamy, RK Nimmakayala, S Parte, AC Are… - Molecular cancer, 2022‏ - Springer
Cancer divergence has many facets other than being considered a genetic term. It is a
tremendous challenge to understand the metastasis and therapy response in cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Nasopharyngeal carcinoma ecology theory: Cancer as multidimensional spatiotemporal “unity of ecology and evolution” pathological ecosystem

W Luo - Theranostics, 2023‏ - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a particular entity of head neck cancer that is generally
regarded as a genetic disease with diverse intertumor and intratumor heterogeneity. This …

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 …

The evolutionary dynamics of extrachromosomal DNA in human cancers

JT Lange, JC Rose, CY Chen, Y Pichugin, L **e… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Oncogene amplification on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is a common event, driving
aggressive tumor growth, drug resistance and shorter survival. Currently, the impact of …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021‏ - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …