Tumor mutational burden as a predictive biomarker in solid tumors

D Sha, Z Jin, J Budczies, K Kluck, A Stenzinger… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Tumor mutational burden (TMB), defined as the number of somatic mutations per megabase
of interrogated genomic sequence, varies across malignancies. Panel sequencing–based …

Prognostic significance of tumor-associated macrophage content in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a meta-analysis

AT Kumar, A Knops, B Swendseid… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) exists within a
microenvironment rich in immune cells. Macrophages are particularly abundant in and …

[HTML][HTML] Web-based survival analysis tool tailored for medical research (KMplot): development and implementation

A Lánczky, B Győrffy - Journal of medical Internet research, 2021 - jmir.org
Background Survival analysis is a cornerstone of medical research, enabling the
assessment of clinical outcomes for disease progression and treatment efficiency. Despite …

YAP/TAZ and ATF4 drive resistance to Sorafenib in hepatocellular carcinoma by preventing ferroptosis

R Gao, RKR Kalathur, M Coto‐Llerena… - EMBO molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
Understanding the mechanisms underlying evasive resistance in cancer is an unmet
medical need to improve the efficacy of current therapies. In this study, a combination of …

Histone demethylase KDM5D upregulation drives sex differences in colon cancer

J Li, Z Lan, W Liao, JW Horner, X Xu, J Liu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Sex exerts a profound impact on cancer incidence, spectrum and outcomes, yet the
molecular and genetic bases of such sex differences are ill-defined and presumptively …

Comprehensive and integrated genomic characterization of adult soft tissue sarcomas

AJ Lazar, MD McLellan, MH Bailey, CA Miller… - Cell, 2017 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Sarcomas are a broad family of mesenchymal malignancies exhibiting remarkable histologic
diversity. We describe the multi-platform molecular landscape of 206 adult soft tissue …

Circular RNA cSMARCA5 inhibits growth and metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma

J Yu, Q Xu, Z Wang, Y Yang, L Zhang, J Ma, S Sun… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims In recent years, circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been shown to have
critical regulatory roles in cancer biology. However, the contributions of circRNAs to …

Baseline neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and derived NLR could predict overall survival in patients with advanced melanoma treated with nivolumab

M Capone, D Giannarelli, D Mallardo… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Previous studies have suggested that elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio
(NLR) is prognostic for worse outcomes in patients with a variety of solid cancers, including …

Immune cell infiltration as a biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of stage I–III colon cancer

R Zhou, J Zhang, D Zeng, H Sun, X Rong, M Shi… - Cancer immunology …, 2019 - Springer
Tumour-infiltrating immune cells are a source of important prognostic information for patients
with resectable colon cancer. We developed a novel immune model based on systematic …

SurvExpress: an online biomarker validation tool and database for cancer gene expression data using survival analysis

R Aguirre-Gamboa, H Gomez-Rueda… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Validation of multi-gene biomarkers for clinical outcomes is one of the most important issues
for cancer prognosis. An important source of information for virtual validation is the high …