Sex differences in cancer driver genes and biomarkers

CH Li, S Haider, YJ Shiah, K Thai, PC Boutros - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Cancer differs significantly between men and women; even after adjusting for known
epidemiologic risk factors, the sexes differ in incidence, outcome, and response to therapy …

A novel mechanism driving poor-prognosis prostate cancer: overexpression of the DNA repair gene, ribonucleotide reductase small subunit M2 (RRM2)

YZ Mazzu, J Armenia, G Chakraborty, Y Yoshikawa… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: Defects in genes in the DNA repair pathways significantly contribute to prostate
cancer progression. We hypothesize that overexpression of DNA repair genes may also …

Prostate-specific membrane antigen cleavage of vitamin B9 stimulates oncogenic signaling through metabotropic glutamate receptors

C Kaittanis, C Andreou, H Hieronymus, N Mao… - Journal of experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) or folate hydrolase 1 (FOLH1) is highly
expressed on prostate cancer. Its expression correlates inversely with survival and …

Aneuploidy drives lethal progression in prostate cancer

KH Stopsack, CA Whittaker, TA Gerke… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Aneuploidy, defined as chromosome gains and losses, is a hallmark of cancer. However,
compared with other tumor types, extensive aneuploidy is relatively rare in prostate cancer …

Development and validation of a 28-gene hypoxia-related prognostic signature for localized prostate cancer

L Yang, D Roberts, M Takhar, N Erho, BAS Bibby… - …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Hypoxia is associated with a poor prognosis in prostate cancer. This work
aimed to derive and validate a hypoxia-related mRNA signature for localized prostate …

Significance of BRCA2 and RB1 Co-loss in Aggressive Prostate Cancer Progression

G Chakraborty, J Armenia, YZ Mazzu… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: Previous sequencing studies revealed that alterations of genes associated with
DNA damage response (DDR) are enriched in men with metastatic castration-resistant …

Genomic predictors of outcome in prostate cancer

PJ Boström, AS Bjartell, JWF Catto, SE Eggener… - European urology, 2015 - Elsevier
Context Given the highly variable behavior and clinical course of prostate cancer (PCa) and
the multiple available treatment options, a personalized approach to oncologic risk …

SPOP mutation leads to genomic instability in prostate cancer

G Boysen, CE Barbieri, D Prandi, M Blattner, SS Chae… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Genomic instability is a fundamental feature of human cancer often resulting from impaired
genome maintenance. In prostate cancer, structural genomic rearrangements are a common …

Integrative epigenetic taxonomy of primary prostate cancer

S Stelloo, E Nevedomskaya, Y Kim… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Androgen Receptor (AR) is the key-driving transcription factor in prostate
cancer, tightly controlled by epigenetic regulation. To date, most epigenetic profiling has …

Pan-cancer analysis of CDK12 alterations identifies a subset of prostate cancers with distinct genomic and clinical characteristics

B Nguyen, JM Mota, S Nandakumar, KH Stopsack… - European urology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background CDK12 genomic alterations occur in several tumor types, but little is known
about their oncogenic role and clinical significance. Objective To describe the landscape of …