Prostate cancer progression after androgen deprivation therapy: mechanisms of castrate resistance and novel therapeutic approaches

T Karantanos, PG Corn, TC Thompson - Oncogene, 2013 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related mortality in men in Western
societies. Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is a critical survival pathway for prostate cancer …

Human prostate cancer risk factors

DG Bostwick, HB Burke, D Djakiew… - … Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer has the highest prevalence of any nonskin cancer in the human body, with
similar likelihood of neoplastic foci found within the prostates of men around the world …

Tumor copy number alteration burden is a pan-cancer prognostic factor associated with recurrence and death

H Hieronymus, R Murali, A Tin, K Yadav, W Abida… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The level of copy number alteration (CNA), termed CNA burden, in the tumor genome is
associated with recurrence of primary prostate cancer. Whether CNA burden is associated …

Identification of a CpG island methylator phenotype that defines a distinct subgroup of glioma

H Noushmehr, DJ Weisenberger, K Diefes, HS Phillips… - Cancer cell, 2010 - cell.com
We have profiled promoter DNA methylation alterations in 272 glioblastoma tumors in the
context of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We found that a distinct subset of samples …

In vivo amplification of the androgen receptor gene and progression of human prostate cancer

T Visakorpi, E Hyytinen, P Koivisto, M Tanner… - Nature …, 1995 - nature.com
Overexpression of amplified genes is often associated with the acquisition of resistance to
cancer therapeutic agents in vitro. We have identified a similar molecular mechanism in vivo …

Molecular genetics of prostate cancer

C Abate-Shen, MM Shen - Genes & development, 2000 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Prostate cancer afflicts one man in nine over the age of 65 and represents the most
frequently diagnosed cancer in American men (Coffey 1993). Early detection through serum …

Copy number analysis indicates monoclonal origin of lethal metastatic prostate cancer

W Liu, S Laitinen, S Khan, M Vihinen, J Kowalski… - Nature medicine, 2009 - nature.com
Many studies have shown that primary prostate cancers are multifocal,, and are composed
of multiple genetically distinct cancer cell clones,,. Whether or not multiclonal primary …

The role of chromosomal instability in cancer and therapeutic responses

N Vargas-Rondón, VE Villegas, M Rondón-Lagos - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death, and despite increased research in recent
years, control of advanced-stage disease and optimal therapeutic responses remain elusive …

Admixture mapping identifies 8q24 as a prostate cancer risk locus in African-American men

ML Freedman, CA Haiman… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
A whole-genome admixture scan in 1,597 African Americans identified a 3.8 Mb interval on
chromosome 8q24 as significantly associated with susceptibility to prostate cancer …

MYC and prostate cancer

CM Koh, CJ Bieberich, CV Dang, WG Nelson… - Genes & …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Prostate cancer, the majority of which is adenocarcinoma, is the most common epithelial
cancer affecting a majority of elderly men in Western nations. Its manifestation, however …