Bladder cancer

O Sanli, J Dobruch, MA Knowles, M Burger… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Bladder cancer is a highly prevalent disease and is associated with substantial morbidity,
mortality and cost. Environmental or occupational exposures to carcinogens, especially …

Molecular biology of bladder cancer: new insights into pathogenesis and clinical diversity

MA Knowles, CD Hurst - Nature reviews cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Urothelial carcinoma of the bladder comprises two long-recognized disease entities with
distinct molecular features and clinical outcome. Low-grade non-muscle-invasive tumours …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cell clustering shapes DNA methylation to enable metastasis seeding

S Gkountela, F Castro-Giner, BM Szczerba, M Vetter… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The ability of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to form clusters has been linked to increased
metastatic potential. Yet biological features and vulnerabilities of CTC clusters remain …

Comprehensive molecular characterization of muscle-invasive bladder cancer

AG Robertson, J Kim, H Al-Ahmadie, J Bellmunt, G Guo… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
We report a comprehensive analysis of 412 muscle-invasive bladder cancers characterized
by multiple TCGA analytical platforms. Fifty-eight genes were significantly mutated, and the …

Urine biomarkers in bladder cancer—Current status and future perspectives

M Maas, T Todenhöfer, PC Black - Nature Reviews Urology, 2023 - nature.com
Urine markers to detect bladder cancer have been the subject of research for decades. The
idea that urine—being in continuous contact with tumour tissue—should provide a vector of …

DNA methylation screening identifies driver epigenetic events of cancer cell survival

DD De Carvalho, S Sharma, JS You, SF Su… - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
Cancer cells typically exhibit aberrant DNA methylation patterns that can drive malignant
transformation. Whether cancer cells are dependent on these abnormal epigenetic …

DNA methylation-based biomarkers in bladder cancer

R Kandimalla, AA Van Tilborg, EC Zwarthoff - Nature Reviews Urology, 2013 - nature.com
Urinary bladder cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the Western world. Increasing
evidence has shown that DNA methylation in bladder cancer is expansive and is implicated …

Bladder cancer survivorship

SK Bhanvadia - Current urology reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Bladder cancer (BC) is the second most common genitourinary
malignancy, with a growing population of survivors globally. Over the past two decades …

DNA methylation directly silences genes with non-CpG island promoters and establishes a nucleosome occupied promoter

H Han, CC Cortez, X Yang, PW Nichols… - Human molecular …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Despite the fact that 45% of all human gene promoters do not contain CpG islands, the role
of DNA methylation in control of non-CpG island promoters is controversial and its relevance …

Comprehensive genome methylation analysis in bladder cancer: identification and validation of novel methylated genes and application of these as urinary tumor …

T Reinert, C Modin, FM Castano, P Lamy… - Clinical cancer …, 2011 - AACR
Purpose: Epigenetic alterations are common and can now be addressed in a parallel
fashion. We investigated the methylation in bladder cancer with respect to location in …