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 …

Omics technologies improving breast cancer research and diagnostics

A Orsini, C Diquigiovanni, E Bonora - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer (BC) has yielded approximately 2.26 million new cases and has caused
nearly 685,000 deaths worldwide in the last two years, making it the most common …

Spatial transcriptomic analysis of a diverse patient cohort reveals a conserved architecture in triple-negative breast cancer

R Bassiouni, MO Idowu, LD Gibbs, V Robila… - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive disease that disproportionately
affects African American (AA) women. Limited targeted therapeutic options exist for patients …

Phenotypic heterogeneity and metastasis of breast cancer cells

LA Hapach, SP Carey, SC Schwager, PV Taufalele… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Although intratumoral genomic heterogeneity can impede cancer research and treatment,
less is known about the effects of phenotypic heterogeneities. To investigate the role of cell …

Collective metastasis: coordinating the multicellular voyage

E Wrenn, Y Huang, K Cheung - Clinical & experimental metastasis, 2021 - Springer
The metastatic process is arduous. Cancer cells must escape the confines of the primary
tumor, make their way into and travel through the circulation, then survive and proliferate in …

Conjugation of natural triterpenic acids with delocalized lipophilic cations: selective targeting cancer cell mitochondria

AY Spivak, DA Nedopekina, RR Gubaidullin… - Journal of Personalized …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Currently, a new line of research on mitochondria-targeted anticancer drugs is actively
developing in the field of biomedicine and medicinal chemistry. The distinguishing features …

Dissecting breast cancer circulating tumor cells competence via modelling metastasis in zebrafish

I Martínez-Pena, P Hurtado, N Carmona-Ule… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Cancer metastasis is a deathly process, and a better understanding of the
different steps is needed. The shedding of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and CTC-cluster …

ECM1 secreted by HER2-overexpressing breast cancer cells promotes formation of a vascular niche accelerating cancer cell migration and invasion

SS Steinhaeuser, E Morera, Z Budkova… - Laboratory …, 2020 - nature.com
The tumor microenvironment is increasingly recognized as key player in cancer progression.
Investigating heterotypic interactions between cancer cells and their microenvironment is …

The paradox of cooperation among selfish cancer cells

JP Capp, F Thomas, A Marusyk… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is traditionally assumed that during cancer development, tumor cells abort their initially
cooperative behavior (ie, cheat) in favor of evolutionary strategies designed solely to …

Intratumor heterogeneity and cell secretome promote chemotherapy resistance and progression of colorectal cancer

J Källberg, A Harrison, V March, S Bērziņa… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
The major underlying cause for the high mortality rate in colorectal cancer (CRC) relies on
its drug resistance, to which intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) contributes substantially. CRC …