Orchestrating smart therapeutics to achieve optimal treatment in small cell lung cancer: recent progress and future directions

C Zhang, C Zhang, K Wang, H Wang - Journal of Translational Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a recalcitrant malignancy with elusive mechanism of
pathogenesis and dismal prognosis. Over the past decades, platinum-based chemotherapy …

Immune heterogeneity in small-cell lung cancer and vulnerability to immune checkpoint blockade

BY Nabet, H Hamidi, MC Lee, R Banchereau, S Morris… - Cancer cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Atezolizumab (anti-PD-L1), combined with carboplatin and etoposide (CE), is now
a standard of care for extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC). A clearer …

Quantifying cancer cell plasticity with gene regulatory networks and single-cell dynamics

SM Groves, V Quaranta - Frontiers in Network Physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Phenotypic plasticity of cancer cells can lead to complex cell state dynamics during tumor
progression and acquired resistance. Highly plastic stem-like states may be inherently drug …

Spatial epitope barcoding reveals clonal tumor patch behaviors

X Rovira-Clavé, AP Drainas, S Jiang, Y Bai, M Baron… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Intratumoral heterogeneity is a seminal feature of human tumors contributing to tumor
progression and response to treatment. Current technologies are still largely unsuitable to …

Network biology-inspired machine learning features predict cancer gene targets and reveal target coordinating mechanisms

TM Weiskittel, A Cao, K Meng-Lin, Z Lehmann, B Feng… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Anticipating and understanding cancers' need for specific gene activities is key for novel
therapeutic development. Here we utilized DepMap, a cancer gene dependency screen, to …

Unified tumor growth mechanisms from multimodel inference and dataset integration

SP Beik, LA Harris, MA Kochen, J Sage… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Mechanistic models of biological processes can explain observed phenomena and predict
responses to a perturbation. A mathematical model is typically constructed using expert …

Unfolding the secrets of small cell lung cancer progression: Novel approaches and insights through rapid autopsies

Z Megyesfalvi, S Heeke, BJ Drapkin, A Solta, I Kovacs… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
The understanding of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) biology has increased dramatically in
recent years, but the processes that allow SCLC to progress rapidly remain poorly …

Involvement of epithelial–mesenchymal transition genes in small cell lung cancer phenotypic plasticity

SM Groves, N Panchy, DR Tyson, LA Harris… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive cancer that is difficult to
treat. There are at least five subtypes of SCLC cells, defined by gene expression signatures …

[HTML][HTML] Microscopy-based phenotypic monitoring of MDA-MB-231 spheroids allows the evaluation of phenotype-directed therapy

L Mahmoud, A Cougnoux, C Bekiari… - Experimental Cell …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast cancer (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women. Prognosis has
improved over the years, to a large extent, owing to personalized therapy informed by …

[HTML][HTML] Olfactory neuroblastoma mimics molecular heterogeneity and lineage trajectories of small-cell lung cancer

JB Finlay, AS Ireland, SB Hawgood, T Reyes, T Ko… - Cancer Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The olfactory epithelium undergoes neuronal regeneration from basal stem cells and is
susceptible to olfactory neuroblastoma (ONB), a rare tumor of unclear origins. Employing …