Targeting telomeres: advances in telomere maintenance mechanism-specific cancer therapies

J Gao, HA Pickett - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells establish replicative immortality by activating a telomere-maintenance
mechanism (TMM), be it telomerase or the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) …

The journey from melanocytes to melanoma

PP Centeno, V Pavet, R Marais - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, melanoma has led the field in new cancer treatments, with impressive
gains in on-treatment survival but more modest improvements in overall survival. Melanoma …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved pan-cancer microenvironment subtypes predict response to immunotherapy

A Bagaev, N Kotlov, K Nomie, V Svekolkin, A Gafurov… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The clinical use of molecular targeted therapy is rapidly evolving but has primarily focused
on genomic alterations. Transcriptomic analysis offers an opportunity to dissect the …

Identification of bacteria-derived HLA-bound peptides in melanoma

S Kalaora, A Nagler, D Nejman, M Alon, C Barbolin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A variety of species of bacteria are known to colonize human tumours,,,,,,,,,–, proliferate
within them and modulate immune function, which ultimately affects the survival of patients …

Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers

V Girish, AA Lakhani, SL Thompson, CM Scaduto… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most cancers exhibit aneuploidy, but its functional significance in tumor development is
controversial. Here, we describe ReDACT (Restoring Disomy in Aneuploid cells using …

[HTML][HTML] Cutaneous melanoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

O Michielin, ACJ Van Akkooi, PA Ascierto, R Dummer… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines provide updated recommendations on management
of cutaneous melanoma (diagnosis, treatment and follow-up), compiled by a …

Integrative molecular and clinical modeling of clinical outcomes to PD1 blockade in patients with metastatic melanoma

D Liu, B Schilling, D Liu, A Sucker, E Livingstone… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) has demonstrated efficacy in many tumor types, but
predictors of responsiveness to anti-PD1 ICB are incompletely characterized. In this study …

The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

LB Alexandrov, J Kim, NJ Haradhvala, MN Huang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Somatic mutations in cancer genomes are caused by multiple mutational processes, each of
which generates a characteristic mutational signature. Here, as part of the Pan-Cancer …

Combination nivolumab and ipilimumab or nivolumab alone in melanoma brain metastases: a multicentre randomised phase 2 study

GV Long, V Atkinson, S Lo, S Sandhu… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Nivolumab monotherapy and combination nivolumab plus ipilimumab increase
proportions of patients achieving a response and survival versus ipilimumab in patients with …

Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by genetic change, and the advent of massively parallel sequencing has
enabled systematic documentation of this variation at the whole-genome scale,–. Here we …