Combating subclonal evolution of resistant cancer phenotypes

SW Brady, JA McQuerry, Y Qiao, SR Piccolo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Metastatic breast cancer remains challenging to treat, and most patients ultimately progress
on therapy. This acquired drug resistance is largely due to drug-refractory sub-populations …

A Study of Cancer Heterogeneity: From Genetic Instability to Epigenetic Diversity in Colorectal Cancer

MG Francipane, E Lagasse - Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery: An Elusive …, 2013 - Springer
Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite improvements in diagnosis and
treatment over the past two decades, cancer continues to present a serious challenge to …

Genetic and non‐genetic drug resistance: Darwin or Lamarck?

M Russo - Molecular Oncology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Drug resistance represents a major limitation to the long‐term efficacy of anti‐cancer
treatments. The commonly accepted view is that the selection of inheritable genetic …

Deciphering cellular states of innate tumor drug responses

E Graudens, V Boulanger, C Mollard… - Genome biology, 2006 - Springer
Background The molecular mechanisms underlying innate tumor drug resistance, a major
obstacle to successful cancer therapy, remain poorly understood. In colorectal cancer …

Tolerant/persister cancer cells and the path to resistance to targeted therapy

M Swayden, H Chhouri, Y Anouar, L Grumolato - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The capacity of cancer to adapt to treatment and evolve is a major limitation for targeted
therapies. While the role of new acquired mutations is well-established, recent findings …

Evolutionary strategies to overcome cancer cell resistance to treatment

PM Enriquez-Navas, RA Gatenby - Phenotypic Switching, 2020 - Elsevier
Evolution of resistance remains a barrier to successful therapy in most metastatic cancers
despite the increasing number of treatment options. A major driver of the evolutionary …

Molecular mechanisms involved in the acquisition of resistance to treatment of colon cancer cells

DM Velázquez, MC Castañeda-Patlán… - Colorectal Cancer …, 2016 - books.google.com
Cancer cells are remarkably resilient to therapies aimed at their elimination. The exploration
of pathways that sustain cancer cells and that allow cancer cells to become resistanthas …

Implications of cancer evolution for drug development

S Turajlic, C Swanton - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Tumour evolution, which results in the existence of multiple distinct populations of cancer
cells within the same tumour and the same patient, is increasingly appreciated to have a key …

Abstract B029: Epigenetic adaptability as a targetable trait underlying therapy resistance

A Xieraili, M Froid, A Marusyk - Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Despite the development of effective targeted agents for the treatment of cancer, targeted
therapies eventually fail in advanced, metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as …

Modeling evolutionary fitness in resistant cancers based on a common adaptability trait

B Singh, VN Sarli, A Lucci - Cancer Research, 2024 - AACR
Cancer is composed of a major subpopulation of proliferative cells and a minor
subpopulation of highly adaptable cells. Although it is evident that cancer is an evolution like …