Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes

F Martínez-Jiménez, F Muiños, I Sentís… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A fundamental goal in cancer research is to understand the mechanisms of cell
transformation. This is key to developing more efficient cancer detection methods and …

Breast cancer as an example of tumour heterogeneity and tumour cell plasticity during malignant progression

F Lüönd, S Tiede, G Christofori - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneity within a tumour increases its ability to adapt to constantly changing
constraints, but adversely affects a patient's prognosis, therapy response and clinical …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Breast cancer development and progression: Risk factors, cancer stem cells, signaling pathways, genomics, and molecular pathogenesis

Y Feng, M Spezia, S Huang, C Yuan, Z Zeng, L Zhang… - Genes & diseases, 2018 - Elsevier
As the most commonly occurring cancer in women worldwide, breast cancer poses a
formidable public health challenge on a global scale. Breast cancer consists of a group of …

Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor

SMA Islam, M Díaz-Gay, Y Wu, M Barnes, R Vangara… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Mutational signature analysis is commonly performed in cancer genomic studies. Here, we
present SigProfilerExtractor, an automated tool for de novo extraction of mutational …

Tumor heterogeneity in breast cancer

G Turashvili, E Brogi - Frontiers in medicine, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease and differs greatly among different patients
(intertumor heterogeneity) and even within each individual tumor (intratumor heterogeneity) …

Analyses of repeated failures in cancer therapy for solid tumors: poor tumor-selective drug delivery, low therapeutic efficacy and unsustainable costs

H Maeda, M Khatami - Clinical and translational medicine, 2018 - Springer
For over six decades reductionist approaches to cancer chemotherapies including recent
immunotherapy for solid tumors produced outcome failure-rates of 90%(±5) according to …

The role of CD133 in cancer: a concise review

PM Glumac, AM LeBeau - Clinical and translational medicine, 2018 - Springer
Despite the abundant ongoing research efforts, cancer remains one of the most challenging
diseases to treat globally. Due to the heterogenous nature of cancer, one of the major …

Liquid biopsy in breast cancer: A comprehensive review

S Alimirzaie, M Bagherzadeh, MR Akbari - Clinical genetics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Due to its complexity in
nature, effective breast cancer treatment can encounter many challenges. Traditional …