Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins

A Jassim, EP Rahrmann, BD Simons… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer has been a leading cause of death for decades. This dismal statistic has increased
efforts to prevent the disease or to detect it early, when treatment is less invasive, relatively …

Radiation therapy enhances immunotherapy response in microsatellite stable colorectal and pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a phase II trial

AR Parikh, A Szabolcs, JN Allen, JW Clark, JY Wo… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Overcoming intrinsic resistance to immune checkpoint blockade for microsatellite stable
(MSS) colorectal cancer (CRC) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains …

[HTML][HTML] Most large structural variants in cancer genomes can be detected without long reads

ZN Choo, JM Behr, A Deshpande, K Hadi, X Yao… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Short-read sequencing is the workhorse of cancer genomics yet is thought to miss many
structural variants (SVs), particularly large chromosomal alterations. To characterize missing …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by genetic change, and the advent of massively parallel sequencing has
enabled systematic documentation of this variation at the whole-genome scale,–. Here we …

Hepatitis B virus integrations promote local and distant oncogenic driver alterations in hepatocellular carcinoma

C Péneau, S Imbeaud, T La Bella, TZ Hirsch, S Caruso… - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Infection by HBV is the main risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
worldwide. HBV directly drives carcinogenesis through integrations in the human genome …

Computational analysis of cancer genome sequencing data

I Cortés-Ciriano, DC Gulhan, JJK Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Distilling biologically meaningful information from cancer genome sequencing data requires
comprehensive identification of somatic alterations using rigorous computational methods …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding human health through metatranscriptomics

T Ojala, E Kankuri, M Kankainen - Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2023 - cell.com
Metatranscriptomics has revolutionized our ability to explore and understand transcriptional
programs in microbial communities. Moreover, it has enabled us to gain deeper and more …

Fusobacterium nucleatum and cancer

T Alon‐Maimon, O Mandelboim… - Periodontology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence demonstrates that the oral pathobiont Fusobacterium nucleatum is
involved in the progression of an increasing number of tumors types. Thus far, the …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer analyses reveal cancer-type-specific fungal ecologies and bacteriome interactions

L Narunsky-Haziza, GD Sepich-Poore, I Livyatan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cancer-microbe associations have been explored for centuries, but cancer-associated fungi
have rarely been examined. Here, we comprehensively characterize the cancer mycobiome …