Clinical implications of intratumor heterogeneity: challenges and opportunities

S Ramón y Cajal, M Sesé, C Capdevila… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
In this review, we highlight the role of intratumoral heterogeneity, focusing on the clinical and
biological ramifications this phenomenon poses. Intratumoral heterogeneity arises through …

The DNA methylation landscape in cancer

K Skvortsova, C Stirzaker, P Taberlay - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
As one of the most abundant and well-studied epigenetic modifications, DNA methylation
plays an essential role in normal development and cellular biology. Global alterations to the …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive characterization of cancer driver genes and mutations

MH Bailey, C Tokheim, E Porta-Pardo, S Sengupta… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Identifying molecular cancer drivers is critical for precision oncology. Multiple advanced
algorithms to identify drivers now exist, but systematic attempts to combine and optimize …

DNA damage and the balance between survival and death in cancer biology

WP Roos, AD Thomas, B Kaina - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
DNA is vulnerable to damage resulting from endogenous metabolites, environmental and
dietary carcinogens, some anti-inflammatory drugs, and genotoxic cancer therapeutics …

DNA-demethylating agents target colorectal cancer cells by inducing viral mimicry by endogenous transcripts

D Roulois, HL Yau, R Singhania, Y Wang, A Danesh… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
DNA-demethylating agents have shown clinical anti-tumor efficacy via an unknown
mechanism of action. Using a combination of experimental and bioinformatics analyses in …

Integrated molecular characterization of testicular germ cell tumors

H Shen, J Shih, DP Hollern, L Wang, R Bowlby… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
We studied 137 primary testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) using high-dimensional assays
of genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic features. These tumors exhibited …

The contribution of epigenetics to cancer immunotherapy

L Villanueva, D Álvarez-Errico, M Esteller - Trends in immunology, 2020 - cell.com
Effective anticancer immunotherapy treatments constitute a qualitative leap in cancer
management. Nonetheless, not all patients benefit from such therapies because they fail to …

Endogenous retroelements and the viral mimicry response in cancer therapy and cellular homeostasis

R Chen, CA Ishak, DD De Carvalho - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Features of the cancer epigenome distinguish cancers from their respective cell of origin and
establish therapeutic vulnerabilities that can be exploited through pharmacologic inhibition …

[HTML][HTML] The translational challenges of precision oncology

O Pich, C Bailey, TBK Watkins, S Zaccaria… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The translational challenges in the field of precision oncology are in part related to the
biological complexity and diversity of this disease. Technological advances in genomics …

SERS nanoparticles in medicine: from label-free detection to spectroscopic tagging

LA Lane, X Qian, S Nie - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The development of diagnostic and therapeutic nanoparticles for biomedical applications is
of broad current interest in science, engineering, and medicine. The fundamental basis is …