Neutrophils in cancer: neutral no more

SB Coffelt, MD Wellenstein, KE de Visser - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Neutrophils are indispensable antagonists of microbial infection and facilitators of wound
healing. In the cancer setting, a newfound appreciation for neutrophils has come into view …

BRCAness revisited

CJ Lord, A Ashworth - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Over the past 20 years, there has been considerable progress in our understanding of the
biological functions of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 cancer susceptibility genes. This has led to …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic and transcriptomic features of response to anti-PD-1 therapy in metastatic melanoma

W Hugo, JM Zaretsky, LU Sun, C Song, BH Moreno… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade provides significant clinical benefits for melanoma
patients. We analyzed the somatic mutanomes and transcriptomes of pretreatment …

Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

P Bailey, DK Chang, K Nones, AL Johns, AM Patch… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Integrated genomic analysis of 456 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas identified 32
recurrently mutated genes that aggregate into 10 pathways: KRAS, TGF-β, WNT, NOTCH …

TCGAbiolinks: an R/Bioconductor package for integrative analysis of TCGA data

A Colaprico, TC Silva, C Olsen, L Garofano… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) research network has made public a large
collection of clinical and molecular phenotypes of more than 10 000 tumor patients across …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting non-small cell lung cancer prognosis by fully automated microscopic pathology image features

KH Yu, C Zhang, GJ Berry, RB Altman, C Ré… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the most prevalent cancer worldwide, and histopathological assessment is
indispensable for its diagnosis. However, human evaluation of pathology slides cannot …

Distinct patterns of somatic genome alterations in lung adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas

JD Campbell, A Alexandrov, J Kim, J Wala, AH Berger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To compare lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) and to
identify new drivers of lung carcinogenesis, we examined the exome sequences and copy …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic correlates of immune-cell infiltrates in colorectal carcinoma

M Giannakis, XJ Mu, SA Shukla, ZR Qian, O Cohen… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Large-scale genomic characterization of tumors from prospective cohort studies may yield
new insights into cancer pathogenesis. We performed whole-exome sequencing of 619 …

Routine molecular profiling of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: results of a 1-year nationwide programme of the French Cooperative Thoracic …

F Barlesi, J Mazieres, JP Merlio, D Debieuvre, J Mosser… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background The molecular profiling of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer
(NSCLC) for known oncogenic drivers is recommended during routine care. Nationally …

Comprehensive molecular characterization of papillary renal-cell carcinoma

Cancer Genome Atlas Research … - New England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Papillary renal-cell carcinoma, which accounts for 15 to 20% of renal-cell
carcinomas, is a heterogeneous disease that consists of various types of renal cancer …