Metastasis

S Gerstberger, Q Jiang, K Ganesh - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Most cancer-associated deaths occur due to metastasis, yet our understanding of metastasis
as an evolving, heterogeneous, systemic disease and of how to effectively treat it is still …

Cancer cell plasticity during tumor progression, metastasis and response to therapy

A Pérez-González, K Bévant, C Blanpain - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cell plasticity represents the ability of cells to be reprogrammed and to change their fate and
identity, enabling homeostasis restoration and tissue regeneration following damage. Cell …

Metastatic colorectal cancer: mechanisms and emerging therapeutics

AE Shin, FG Giancotti, AK Rustgi - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) remains a lethal disease with an approximately 14% 5-
year survival rate. While early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) can be cured by surgery with …

Presence of onco-fetal neighborhoods in hepatocellular carcinoma is associated with relapse and response to immunotherapy

Z Li, R Pai, S Gupta, J Currenti, W Guo… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Onco-fetal reprogramming of the tumor ecosystem induces fetal developmental signatures in
the tumor microenvironment, leading to immunosuppressive features. Here, we employed …

An oncogenic phenoscape of colonic stem cell polarization

X Qin, FC Rodriguez, J Sufi, P Vlckova, J Claus… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer cells are regulated by oncogenic mutations and microenvironmental signals, yet
these processes are often studied separately. To functionally map how cell-intrinsic and cell …

Organoid cultures for cancer modeling

HHN Yan, AS Chan, FPL Lai, SY Leung - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Organoids derived from adult stem cells (ASCs) and pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are
important preclinical models for studying cancer and developing therapies. Here, we review …

Long-term platinum-based drug accumulation in cancer-associated fibroblasts promotes colorectal cancer progression and resistance to therapy

J Linares, A Sallent-Aragay, J Badia-Ramentol… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of cancer patients do not benefit from platinum-based
chemotherapy (CT) due to the emergence of drug resistance. Here, we apply elemental …

Profiling the heterogeneity of colorectal cancer consensus molecular subtypes using spatial transcriptomics

A Valdeolivas, B Amberg, N Giroud… - NPJ precision …, 2024 - nature.com
The consensus molecular subtypes (CMS) of colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most widely-
used gene expression-based classification and has contributed to a better understanding of …

Plastic persisters: revival stem cells in colorectal cancer

CJ Tape - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is traditionally considered to be a genetically driven disease.
However, nongenetic plasticity has recently emerged as a major driver of tumour initiation …

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy for localized pancreatic cancer: Challenges and early results

RC Chick, AJ Gunderson, S Rahman, JM Cloyd - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease with limited effective treatments.
Despite growing interest in immunotherapy for other cancer types, immunotherapy has not …