Cervical cancer: a global health crisis

W Small Jr, MA Bacon, A Bajaj, LT Chuang, BJ Fisher… - Cancer, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common malignancy diagnosed in women worldwide.
Nearly all cases of cervical cancer result from infection with the human papillomavirus, and …

Functions of bromodomain-containing proteins and their roles in homeostasis and cancer

T Fujisawa, P Filippakopoulos - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Bromodomains (BRDs) are evolutionarily conserved protein–protein interaction modules
that are found in a wide range of proteins with diverse catalytic and scaffolding functions and …

[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 …

Landscape of immunogenic tumor antigens in successful immunotherapy of virally induced epithelial cancer

S Stevanović, A Pasetto, SR Helman, JJ Gartner… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Immunotherapy has clinical activity in certain virally associated cancers. However, the tumor
antigens targeted in successful treatments remain poorly defined. We used a personalized …

Human papillomavirus molecular biology

ME Harden, K Munger - Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Human papillomaviruses are small DNA viruses with a tropism for squamous epithelia. A
unique aspect of human papillomavirus molecular biology involves dependence on the …

Marked for death: targeting epigenetic changes in cancer

SX Pfister, A Ashworth - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
In the past few years, it has become clear that mutations in epigenetic regulatory genes are
common in human cancers. Therapeutic strategies are now being developed to target …

Role of KEAP1/NRF2 and TP53 Mutations in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma Development and Radiation Resistance

Y Jeong, NT Hoang, A Lovejoy, H Stehr, AM Newman… - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) pathogenesis remains incompletely understood,
and biomarkers predicting treatment response remain lacking. Here, we describe novel …

[HTML][HTML] Safety and antitumor activity of the anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab in patients with recurrent carcinoma of the anal canal

PA Ott, SA Piha-Paul, P Munster, MJ Pishvaian… - Annals of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Safety and efficacy of pembrolizumab, a humanized programmed death 1
monoclonal antibody, was assessed in KEYNOTE-028, a multicohort, phase Ib trial for …

Targeting the MAPK signaling pathway in cancer: promising preclinical activity with the novel selective ERK1/2 inhibitor BVD-523 (ulixertinib)

UA Germann, BF Furey, W Markland, RR Hoover… - Molecular cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Aberrant activation of signaling through the RAS–RAF–MEK–ERK (MAPK) pathway is
implicated in numerous cancers, making it an attractive therapeutic target. Although BRAF …

Secondary prevention of cervical cancer: ASCO resource-stratified clinical practice guideline

J Jeronimo, PE Castle, S Temin, L Denny… - Journal of global …, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To provide resource-stratified, evidence-based recommendations on the secondary
prevention of cervical cancer globally. Methods ASCO convened a multidisciplinary …