Liquid biopsy epigenomic profiling for cancer subtyping

SC Baca, JH Seo, MP Davidsohn, B Fortunato… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Although circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assays are increasingly used to inform clinical
decisions in cancer care, they have limited ability to identify the transcriptional programs that …

Towards clinical implementation of circulating tumor DNA in metastatic prostate cancer: opportunities for integration and pitfalls to interpretation

EM Kwan, AW Wyatt, KN Chi - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plasma circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) represents short fragments of tumor-derived DNA
released into the bloodstream primarily from cancer cells undergoing apoptosis. In …

The role of epigenetic change in therapy-induced neuroendocrine prostate cancer lineage plasticity

WK Storck, AM May, TC Westbrook, Z Duan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The androgen receptor (AR) signaling pathway is critical for growth and differentiation of
prostate cancer cells. For that reason, androgen deprivation therapy with medical or surgical …

Noninvasive Detection of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer through Targeted Cell-free DNA Methylation

GM Franceschini, O Quaini, K Mizuno, F Orlando… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a heterogeneous disease associated with
phenotypic subtypes that drive therapy response and outcome differences. Histologic …

Nucleosome patterns in circulating tumor DNA reveal transcriptional regulation of advanced prostate cancer phenotypes

N De Sarkar, RD Patton, AL Doebley, B Hanratty… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Advanced prostate cancers comprise distinct phenotypes, but tumor classification remains
clinically challenging. Here, we harnessed circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to study tumor …

Targeting DNA methylation and B7-H3 in RB1-deficient and neuroendocrine prostate cancer

Y Yamada, VB Venkadakrishnan, K Mizuno… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Aberrant DNA methylation has been implicated as a key driver of prostate cancer lineage
plasticity and histologic transformation to neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC). DNA …

A clinical-grade liquid biomarker detects neuroendocrine differentiation in prostate cancer

SG Zhao, JM Sperger, JL Schehr… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Background Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is an aggressive subtype, the
presence of which changes the prognosis and management of metastatic prostate cancer …

Prostate cancer: genetics, epigenetics and the need for immunological biomarkers

G Rafikova, I Gilyazova, K Enikeeva, V Pavlov… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epidemiological data highlight prostate cancer as a significant global health issue, with high
incidence and substantial impact on patients' quality of life. The prevalence of this disease is …

Clinical applications of liquid biopsy in prostate cancer: from screening to predictive biomarker

F Ionescu, J Zhang, L Wang - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Liquid biopsy (LB), encompassing the analysis of circulating tumor
material in the blood or urine, has emerged as a powerful tool in the management of …

Future directions for precision oncology in prostate cancer

K Mizuno, H Beltran - The Prostate, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical genomic testing is becoming routine in prostate cancer, as biomarker‐driven
therapies such as poly‐ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors and anti‐PD1 …