Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …

Interrogating open issues in cancer precision medicine with patient-derived xenografts

AT Byrne, DG Alférez, F Amant, D Annibali… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) have emerged as an important platform to elucidate new
treatments and biomarkers in oncology. PDX models are used to address clinically relevant …

Association of AR-V7 on circulating tumor cells as a treatment-specific biomarker with outcomes and survival in castration-resistant prostate cancer

HI Scher, D Lu, NA Schreiber, J Louw, RP Graf… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance A critical decision in the management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate
cancer (mCRPC) is when to administer an androgen receptor signaling (ARS) inhibitor or a …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor DNA: a promising biomarker in the liquid biopsy of cancer

F Cheng, L Su, C Qian - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tissue biopsy is the standard diagnostic procedure for cancers and also provides a material
for genotyping, which can assist in the targeted therapies of cancers. However, tissue biopsy …

[HTML][HTML] Paradoxical effects of chemotherapy on tumor relapse and metastasis promotion

C D'Alterio, S Scala, G Sozzi, L Roz… - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Several lines of compelling pre-clinical evidence identify chemotherapy as a potentially
double-edged sword: therapeutic efficacy on the primary tumor may in fact be …

Liquid biopsy: a distinctive approach to the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer

T Hirahata, R ul Quraish, A Quraish… - Cancer …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Over the past decades, the
concept of precision cancer medicine has emerged as a novel approach in the field of …

Antibody-dependent phagocytosis of tumor cells by macrophages: a potent effector mechanism of monoclonal antibody therapy of cancer

N Gül, M van Egmond - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine modern cancer treatment without targeted therapies,
such as mAbs, that bind to tumor-associated antigens. Subsequently, mAbs can use a wide …

Epithelial cell adhesion molecule: an anchor to isolate clinically relevant circulating tumor cells

In the last few decades, the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) has received
increased attention as the main membrane marker used in many enrichment technologies to …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear-specific AR-V7 protein localization is necessary to guide treatment selection in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

HI Scher, RP Graf, NA Schreiber, B McLaughlin, D Lu… - European urology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) expressing AR-V7 protein localized to
the nucleus (nuclear-specific) identify metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer …

Nanostructured substrates for detection and characterization of circulating rare cells: from materials research to clinical applications

J Dong, JF Chen, M Smalley, M Zhao, Z Ke… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Circulating rare cells in the blood are of great significance for both materials research and
clinical applications. For example, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been demonstrated …