[HTML][HTML] How liquid biopsies can change clinical practice in oncology

G Siravegna, B Mussolin, T Venesio, S Marsoni… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell-free DNA fragments are shed into the bloodstream by tumor cells. The analysis of
circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), commonly known as liquid biopsy, can be exploited for a …

Circulating tumor DNA to guide rechallenge with panitumumab in metastatic colorectal cancer: the phase 2 CHRONOS trial

A Sartore-Bianchi, F Pietrantonio, S Lonardi… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) monoclonal antibodies are approved for the
treatment of RAS wild-type (WT) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), but the emergence of …

Adaptive mutability of colorectal cancers in response to targeted therapies

M Russo, G Crisafulli, A Sogari, NM Reilly, S Arena… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The emergence of drug resistance limits the efficacy of targeted therapies in human tumors.
The prevalent view is that resistance is a fait accompli: when treatment is initiated, cancers …

Dendritic cell-targeted therapy expands CD8 T cell responses to bona-fide neoantigens in lung tumors

L López, LG Morosi, F La Terza, P Bourdely… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cross-presentation by type 1 DCs (cDC1) is critical to induce and sustain antitumoral CD8 T
cell responses to model antigens, in various tumor settings. However, the impact of cross …

Temozolomide treatment alters mismatch repair and boosts mutational burden in tumor and blood of colorectal cancer patients

G Crisafulli, A Sartore-Bianchi, L Lazzari… - Cancer …, 2022 - aacrjournals.org
The majority of metastatic colorectal cancers (mCRC) are mismatch repair (MMR) proficient
and unresponsive to immunotherapy, whereas MMR-deficient (MMRd) tumors often respond …

Radiogenomics in colorectal cancer

B Badic, F Tixier, C Cheze Le Rest, M Hatt, D Visvikis - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Colorectal carcinoma is characterized by intratumoral heterogeneity that
can be assessed by radiogenomics. Radiomics, high-throughput quantitative data extracted …

Werner helicase is a synthetic-lethal vulnerability in mismatch repair–deficient colorectal cancer refractory to targeted therapies, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy

G Picco, CM Cattaneo, EJ van Vliet, G Crisafulli… - Cancer …, 2021 - aacrjournals.org
Targeted therapies, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy are used to treat patients with
mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR)/microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) colorectal cancer …

Liquid biopsy of cerebrospinal fluid enables selective profiling of glioma molecular subtypes at first clinical presentation

F Orzan, F De Bacco, E Lazzarini… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: Current glioma diagnostic guidelines call for molecular profiling to stratify patients
into prognostic and treatment subgroups. In case the tumor tissue is inaccessible …

CD4 T cell–dependent rejection of beta-2 microglobulin null mismatch repair–deficient tumors

G Germano, S Lu, G Rospo, S Lamba… - Cancer …, 2021 - aacrjournals.org
Inactivation of beta-2 microglobulin (B2M) is considered a determinant of resistance to
immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICPi) in melanoma and lung cancers. In contrast, B2M loss …

Targeting the DNA damage response pathways and replication stress in colorectal cancer

E Durinikova, NM Reilly, K Buzo, E Mariella… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: Genomic instability is a hallmark of cancer and targeting DNA damage response
(DDR) is emerging as a promising therapeutic strategy in different solid tumors. The …