Assessing tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in solid tumors: a practical review for pathologists and proposal for a standardized method from the International Immuno …

S Hendry, R Salgado, T Gevaert… - Advances in anatomic …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Assessment of the immune response to tumors is growing in importance as the prognostic
implications of this response are increasingly recognized, and as immunotherapies are …

DNA damage and repair biomarkers of immunotherapy response

KW Mouw, MS Goldberg, PA Konstantinopoulos… - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
DNA-damaging agents are widely used in clinical oncology and exploit deficiencies in tumor
DNA repair. Given the expanding role of immune checkpoint blockade as a therapeutic …

Landscape of microsatellite instability across 39 cancer types

R Bonneville, MA Krook, EA Kautto, J Miya… - JCO precision …, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a pattern of hypermutation that occurs at genomic
microsatellites and is caused by defects in the mismatch repair system. Mismatch repair …

The whole-genome landscape of medulloblastoma subtypes

PA Northcott, I Buchhalter, AS Morrissy, V Hovestadt… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Current therapies for medulloblastoma, a highly malignant childhood brain tumour, impose
debilitating effects on the developing child, and highlight the need for molecularly targeted …

[HTML][HTML] UALCAN: a portal for facilitating tumor subgroup gene expression and survival analyses

DS Chandrashekar, B Bashel, SAH Balasubramanya… - Neoplasia, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Genomics data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project has led to the
comprehensive molecular characterization of multiple cancer types. The large sample …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive analysis of hypermutation in human cancer

BB Campbell, N Light, D Fabrizio, M Zatzman, F Fuligni… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
We present an extensive assessment of mutation burden through sequencing analysis of>
81,000 tumors from pediatric and adult patients, including tumors with hypermutation caused …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated genomic and molecular characterization of cervical cancer

Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network - Nature, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cervical cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide.
Reported here is an extensive molecular characterization of 228 primary cervical cancers …

Confirmation of ProMisE: a simple, genomics‐based clinical classifier for endometrial cancer

A Talhouk, MK McConechy, S Leung, W Yang, A Lum… - Cancer, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Classification of endometrial carcinomas (ECs) by morphologic features is
irreproducible and imperfectly reflects tumor biology. The authors developed the Proactive …

Comprehensive analysis of normal adjacent to tumor transcriptomes

D Aran, R Camarda, J Odegaard, H Paik… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Histologically normal tissue adjacent to the tumor (NAT) is commonly used as a control in
cancer studies. However, little is known about the transcriptomic profile of NAT, how it is …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated genomic characterization of oesophageal carcinoma

Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network - Nature, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Oesophageal cancers are prominent worldwide; however, there are few targeted therapies
and survival rates for these cancers remain dismal. Here we performed a comprehensive …