Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC): Epidemiology, etiology and molecular classification

S Chidambaranathan-Reghupaty, PB Fisher… - Advances in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the primary malignancy of hepatocytes, is a diagnosis with
bleak outcome. According to National Cancer Institute's SEER database, the average five …

Clinical implications of intratumor heterogeneity: challenges and opportunities

S Ramón y Cajal, M Sesé, C Capdevila… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
In this review, we highlight the role of intratumoral heterogeneity, focusing on the clinical and
biological ramifications this phenomenon poses. Intratumoral heterogeneity arises through …

Classification and mutation prediction based on histopathology H&E images in liver cancer using deep learning

M Chen, B Zhang, W Topatana, J Cao, H Zhu… - NPJ precision …, 2020 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common subtype of liver cancer, and assessing
its histopathological grade requires visual inspection by an experienced pathologist. In this …

Effects of alpha-fetoprotein on the occurrence and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma

Y Zheng, M Zhu, M Li - Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2020 - Springer
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world.
Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is considered as a diagnostic and prognostic tumorous marker for …

Aneuploidy: Cancer strength or vulnerability?

G Simonetti, S Bruno, A Padella, E Tenti… - … journal of cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aneuploidy is a very rare and tissue‐specific event in normal conditions, occurring in a low
number of brain and liver cells. Its frequency increases in age‐related disorders and is one …

Role of cyclin‐dependent kinases (CDKs) in hepatocellular carcinoma: Therapeutic potential of targeting the CDK signaling pathway

S Shen, DC Dean, Z Yu, Z Duan - Hepatology Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Liver cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer related mortality in the world, with
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) representing the most common primary subtype. Two …

CDK1 dependent phosphorylation of hTERT contributes to cancer progression

M Yasukawa, Y Ando, T Yamashita, Y Matsuda… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The telomerase reverse transcriptase is upregulated in the majority of human cancers and
contributes directly to cell transformation. Here we report that hTERT is phosphorylated at …

[HTML][HTML] Computational advances of tumor marker selection and sample classification in cancer proteomics

J Tang, Y Wang, Y Luo, J Fu, Y Zhang, Y Li… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer proteomics has become a powerful technique for characterizing the protein markers
driving transformation of malignancy, tracing proteome variation triggered by therapeutics …

Enigmatic MELK: The controversy surrounding its complex role in cancer

IM McDonald, LM Graves - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
The Ser/Thr protein kinase MELK (maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase) has been
considered an attractive therapeutic target for managing cancer since 2005. Studies using …

PKMYT1 promotes gastric cancer cell proliferation and apoptosis resistance

QY Zhang, XQ Chen, XC Liu, DM Wu - OncoTargets and therapy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background Abnormal expression of protein kinase membrane associated
tyrosine/threonine 1 (PKMYT1) is closely associated with multiple types of cancers. In the …