Recommendations for the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) for patients with metastatic cancers: a report from the ESMO Precision Medicine Working Group

F Mosele, J Remon, J Mateo, CB Westphalen… - Annals of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) allows sequencing of a high number of nucleotides in a
short time frame at an affordable cost. While this technology has been widely implemented …

A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes

F Martínez-Jiménez, F Muiños, I Sentís… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A fundamental goal in cancer research is to understand the mechanisms of cell
transformation. This is key to developing more efficient cancer detection methods and …

Mutational signature in colorectal cancer caused by genotoxic pks+E. coli

C Pleguezuelos-Manzano, J Puschhof… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Various species of the intestinal microbiota have been associated with the development of
colorectal cancer,, but it has not been demonstrated that bacteria have a direct role in the …

Extrachromosomal DNA is associated with oncogene amplification and poor outcome across multiple cancers

H Kim, NP Nguyen, K Turner, S Wu, AD Gujar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplification promotes intratumoral genetic heterogeneity
and accelerated tumor evolution,–; however, its frequency and clinical impact are unclear …

Whole genome, transcriptome and methylome profiling enhances actionable target discovery in high-risk pediatric cancer

M Wong, C Mayoh, LMS Lau, DA Khuong-Quang… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Zero Childhood Cancer Program is a precision medicine program to benefit
children with poor-outcome, rare, relapsed or refractory cancer. Using tumor and germline …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy

AS Bear, RH Vonderheide, MH O'Hara - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is among the most immune-resistant tumor types.
Its unique genomic landscape shaped by oncogenic drivers promotes immune suppression …

Pan-cancer landscape of homologous recombination deficiency

L Nguyen, J WM Martens, A Van Hoeck… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) results in impaired double strand break repair
and is a frequent driver of tumorigenesis. Here, we develop a genome-wide mutational scar …

Pervasive chromosomal instability and karyotype order in tumour evolution

TBK Watkins, EL Lim, M Petkovic, S Elizalde… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability in cancer consists of dynamic changes to the number and structure
of chromosomes,. The resulting diversity in somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) may …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated omics of metastatic colorectal cancer

C Li, YD Sun, GY Yu, JR Cui, Z Lou, H Zhang, Y Huang… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
We integrate the genomics, proteomics, and phosphoproteomics of 480 clinical tissues from
146 patients in a Chinese colorectal cancer (CRC) cohort, among which 70 had metastatic …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct classes of complex structural variation uncovered across thousands of cancer genome graphs

K Hadi, X Yao, JM Behr, A Deshpande… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer genomes often harbor hundreds of somatic DNA rearrangement junctions, many of
which cannot be easily classified into simple (eg, deletion) or complex (eg, chromothripsis) …