Pathogenesis of triple-negative breast cancer

F Derakhshan, JS Reis-Filho - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) encompasses a heterogeneous group of
fundamentally different diseases with different histologic, genomic, and immunologic …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

Tracking early lung cancer metastatic dissemination in TRACERx using ctDNA

C Abbosh, AM Frankell, T Harrison, J Kisistok… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) can be used to detect and profile residual tumour cells
persisting after curative intent therapy. The study of large patient cohorts incorporating …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx

AM Frankell, M Dietzen, M Al Bakir, EL Lim, T Karasaki… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. Here we
analysed 1,644 tumour regions sampled at surgery or during follow-up from the first 421 …

[HTML][HTML] Ordered and deterministic cancer genome evolution after p53 loss

T Baslan, JP Morris IV, Z Zhao, J Reyes, YJ Ho… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Although p53 inactivation promotes genomic instability and presents a route to malignancy
for more than half of all human cancers,, the patterns through which heterogenous TP53 …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic characterization of metastatic patterns from prospective clinical sequencing of 25,000 patients

B Nguyen, C Fong, A Luthra, SA Smith, RG DiNatale… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Metastatic progression is the main cause of death in cancer patients, whereas the
underlying genomic mechanisms driving metastasis remain largely unknown. Here, we …

Meta-analysis of tumor-and T cell-intrinsic mechanisms of sensitization to checkpoint inhibition

K Litchfield, JL Reading, C Puttick, K Thakkar… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) augment adaptive immunity. Systematic pan-tumor analyses
may reveal the relative importance of tumor-cell-intrinsic and microenvironmental features …

Persistent mutation burden drives sustained anti-tumor immune responses

N Niknafs, A Balan, C Cherry, K Hummelink… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor mutation burden is an imperfect proxy of tumor foreignness and has therefore failed
to consistently demonstrate clinical utility in predicting responses in the context of …

Signatures of copy number alterations in human cancer

CD Steele, A Abbasi, SMA Islam, AL Bowes… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gains and losses of DNA are prevalent in cancer and emerge as a consequence of inter-
related processes of replication stress, mitotic errors, spindle multipolarity and breakage …

Deep whole-genome ctDNA chronology of treatment-resistant prostate cancer

C Herberts, M Annala, J Sipola, SWS Ng, XE Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) in blood plasma is an emerging tool for clinical cancer
genotyping and longitudinal disease monitoring. However, owing to past emphasis on …