Co-occurring genomic alterations in non-small-cell lung cancer biology and therapy

F Skoulidis, JV Heymach - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
The impressive clinical activity of small-molecule receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors for
oncogene-addicted subgroups of non-small-cell lung cancer (for example, those driven by …

The evolving landscape of biomarkers for checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy

JJ Havel, D Chowell, TA Chan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapies that target cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4
(CTLA4) or the programmed cell death 1 (PD1) pathway have achieved impressive success …

Determining cell type abundance and expression from bulk tissues with digital cytometry

AM Newman, CB Steen, CL Liu, AJ Gentles… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-sequencing has emerged as a powerful technique for characterizing
cellular heterogeneity, but it is currently impractical on large sample cohorts and cannot be …

Molecular subtypes of small cell lung cancer: a synthesis of human and mouse model data

CM Rudin, JT Poirier, LA Byers, C Dive… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an exceptionally lethal malignancy for which more effective
therapies are urgently needed. Several lines of evidence, from SCLC primary human …

Molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

EA Collisson, P Bailey, DK Chang… - Nature reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Cancers that appear morphologically similar often have dramatically different clinical
features, respond variably to therapy and have a range of outcomes. Compelling evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms and implications of metabolic heterogeneity in cancer

J Kim, RJ DeBerardinis - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Tumors display reprogrammed metabolic activities that promote cancer progression. We
currently possess a limited understanding of the processes governing tumor metabolism in …

[HTML][HTML] Commensal microbiota promote lung cancer development via γδ T cells

C Jin, GK Lagoudas, C Zhao, S Bullman, A Bhutkar… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Lung cancer is closely associated with chronic inflammation, but the causes of inflammation
and the specific immune mediators have not been fully elucidated. The lung is a mucosal …

Association of patient characteristics and tumor genomics with clinical outcomes among patients with non–small cell lung cancer using a clinicogenomic database

G Singal, PG Miller, V Agarwala, G Li, G Kaushik… - Jama, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Data sets linking comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) to clinical outcomes
may accelerate precision medicine. Objective To assess whether a database that combines …

Brain metastases

AS Achrol, RC Rennert, C Anders, R Soffietti… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
An estimated 20% of all patients with cancer will develop brain metastases, with the majority
of brain metastases occurring in those with lung, breast and colorectal cancers, melanoma …

[HTML][HTML] Nrf2 activation promotes lung cancer metastasis by inhibiting the degradation of Bach1

L Lignitto, SE LeBoeuf, H Homer, S Jiang, M Askenazi… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Approximately 30% of human lung cancers acquire mutations in either Keap1 or Nfe2l2,
resulting in the stabilization of Nrf2, the Nfe2l2 gene product, which controls oxidative …