Advances in risk classification and treatment strategies for neuroblastoma

NR Pinto, MA Applebaum, SL Volchenboum… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Risk-based treatment approaches for neuroblastoma have been ongoing for decades.
However, the criteria used to define risk in various institutional and cooperative groups were …

Neuroblastoma: molecular pathogenesis and therapy

CU Louis, JM Shohet - Annual review of medicine, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Neuroblastoma is a developmental tumor of young children arising from the embryonic
sympathoadrenal lineage of the neural crest. Neuroblastoma is the primary cause of death …

Binary pan-cancer classes with distinct vulnerabilities defined by pro-or anti-cancer YAP/TEAD activity

JD Pearson, K Huang, M Pacal, SR McCurdy, S Lu… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer heterogeneity impacts therapeutic response, driving efforts to discover over-arching
rules that supersede variability. Here, we define pan-cancer binary classes based on distinct …

Genomic analysis identifies new drivers and progression pathways in skin basal cell carcinoma

X Bonilla, L Parmentier, B King, F Bezrukov, G Kaya… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the skin is the most common malignant neoplasm in humans.
BCC is primarily driven by the Sonic Hedgehog (Hh) pathway. However, its phenotypic …

Activation and repression by oncogenic MYC shape tumour-specific gene expression profiles

S Walz, F Lorenzin, J Morton, KE Wiese, B Von Eyss… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
In mammalian cells, the MYC oncoprotein binds to thousands of promoters,,,. During
mitogenic stimulation of primary lymphocytes, MYC promotes an increase in the expression …

Small molecule inhibitors of aurora-a induce proteasomal degradation of N-myc in childhood neuroblastoma

M Brockmann, E Poon, T Berry, A Carstensen… - Cancer cell, 2013 - cell.com
Amplification of MYCN is a driver mutation in a subset of human neuroendocrine tumors,
including neuroblastoma. No small molecules that target N-Myc, the protein encoded by …

Identification of GPC2 as an oncoprotein and candidate immunotherapeutic target in high-risk neuroblastoma

KR Bosse, P Raman, Z Zhu, M Lane, D Martinez… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
We developed an RNA-sequencing-based pipeline to discover differentially expressed cell-
surface molecules in neuroblastoma that meet criteria for optimal immunotherapeutic target …

HAUSP deubiquitinates and stabilizes N-Myc in neuroblastoma

O Tavana, D Li, C Dai, G Lopez, D Banerjee, N Kon… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
The MYCN proto-oncogene is amplified in a number of advanced-stage human tumors, such
as neuroblastomas. Similar to other members of the MYC family of oncoproteins, MYCN …

Diagnostic classification of childhood cancer using multiscale transcriptomics

F Comitani, JO Nash, S Cohen-Gogo, AI Chang… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The causes of pediatric cancers' distinctiveness compared to adult-onset tumors of the same
type are not completely clear and not fully explained by their genomes. In this study, we …

MYCN-driven fatty acid uptake is a metabolic vulnerability in neuroblastoma

L Tao, MA Mohammad, G Milazzo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a childhood cancer arising from sympatho-adrenal neural crest cells.
MYCN amplification is found in half of high-risk NB patients; however, no available therapies …