Aberrant DNA methylation signatures in gynecological malignancies: Implications for early diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy

D Bisht, M Bhadra, N Sharma, M Sachan - Epigenetics in Human Disease, 2024 - Elsevier
Gynecological oncology is an alarming global health agenda within the present mortality
statistics. The most well-explored, precise epigenetic alterations are DNA methylation and …

DNA methylation markers for early detection of women's cancer: promise and challenges

T Wittenberger, S Sleigh, D Reisel, M Zikan, B Wahl… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers cause significant morbidity and mortality. Despite
the presence of existing screening, diagnostic and treatment modalities, they continue to …

[HTML][HTML] Early diagnosis of ovarian cancer based on methylation profiles in peripheral blood cell-free DNA: a systematic review

SK Terp, MP Stoico, K Dybkær, IS Pedersen - Clinical Epigenetics, 2023 - Springer
Patients diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer (OC) have a 5-year survival rate of 49%.
For early-stage disease, the 5-year survival rate is above 90%. However, advanced-stage …

DNA methylation-based profiling of uterine neoplasms: a novel tool to improve gynecologic cancer diagnostics

FKF Kommoss, D Stichel, D Schrimpf… - Journal of cancer …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Uterine neoplasms comprise a broad spectrum of lesions, some of which may pose
a diagnostic challenge even to experienced pathologists. Recently, genome-wide DNA …

42/# 466 Tissue-specific methylated DNA marker discriminate among endometrial, ovarian, and cervical cancers

J Weng, J Kisiel, S Slettedahl, D Mahoney, X Cao… - 2022 - ijgc.bmj.com
Objectives DNA methylation occurs early in carcinogenesis and differ among cancer
subtypes, suggest that these biomarkers might be useful in early detection and in defining …

Methylation profiling of circulating tumor DNA for the detection of ovarian cancer

N Li, Y Zhang, X Zhu, Z Zhang, J Xu, B Li, H Han-Zhang… - Cancer Research, 2020 - AACR
Abstract Introduction: Ovarian cancer (OC), often diagnosed at an advanced stage, lacks
effective screening strategy. It is the most lethal gynecological cancer, with a 5-year survival …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation cancer biomarkers: translation to the clinic

WJ Locke, D Guanzon, C Ma, YJ Liew… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Carcinogenesis is accompanied by widespread DNA methylation changes within the cell.
These changes are characterized by a globally hypomethylated genome with focal …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma cell-free tumor methylome as a biomarker in solid tumors: biology and applications

DB Sacdalan, S Ul Haq, BH Lok - Current Oncology, 2024 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is a fundamental mechanism of epigenetic control in cells and its
dysregulation is strongly implicated in cancer development. Cancers possess an extensively …

DNA methylation biomarkers and their utility for solid cancer diagnostics

KA Heichman, JD Warren - Clinical chemistry and laboratory …, 2012 - degruyter.com
Cellular DNA undergoes profound changes in methylation during cancer development, with
hypermethylation occurring in specific gene promoters, amidst a backdrop of generalized …

Discovery and validation of novel DNA methylation markers for the detection of endometrial cancer: selection by methylome-wide analysis

JN Bakkum-Gamez, JB Kisiel… - Gynecologic …, 2019 - gynecologiconcology-online.net
Objective: DNA methylation is an early event in endometrial cancer (EC) development and
may have utility in early detection. We conducted a whole methylome search followed by …