Phenotype plasticity as enabler of melanoma progression and therapy resistance

I Arozarena, C Wellbrock - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Malignant melanoma is notorious for its inter-and intratumour heterogeneity, based on
transcriptionally distinct melanoma cell phenotypes. It is thought that these distinct …

Mechanisms and prevention of UV‐induced melanoma

A Sample, YY He - Photodermatology, photoimmunology & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and its incidence is rising, creating a costly
and significant clinical problem. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, namely UVA (315 …

Tertiary lymphoid structures improve immunotherapy and survival in melanoma

R Cabrita, M Lauss, A Sanna, M Donia… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Checkpoint blockade therapies that reactivate tumour-associated T cells can induce durable
tumour control and result in the long-term survival of patients with advanced cancers …

[HTML][HTML] Mutational and putative neoantigen load predict clinical benefit of adoptive T cell therapy in melanoma

M Lauss, M Donia, K Harbst, R Andersen… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Adoptive T-cell therapy (ACT) is a highly intensive immunotherapy regime that has yielded
remarkable response rates and many durable responses in clinical trials in melanoma; …

Melanoma subtypes: genomic profiles, prognostic molecular markers and therapeutic possibilities

R Rabbie, P Ferguson, C Molina‐Aguilar… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Melanoma is characterised by its ability to metastasise at early stages of tumour
development. Current clinico‐pathologic staging based on the American Joint Committee on …

Development of a prognostic genetic signature to predict the metastatic risk associated with cutaneous melanoma

P Gerami, RW Cook, J Wilkinson, MC Russell… - Clinical Cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Purpose: The development of a genetic signature for the identification of high-risk cutaneous
melanoma tumors would provide a valuable prognostic tool with value for stage I and II …

Immune cell–poor melanomas benefit from PD-1 blockade after targeted type I IFN activation

T Bald, J Landsberg, D Lopez-Ramos, M Renn… - Cancer discovery, 2014 - AACR
Infiltration of human melanomas with cytotoxic immune cells correlates with spontaneous
type I IFN activation and a favorable prognosis. Therapeutic blockade of immune-inhibitory …

[HTML][HTML] WNT5A induces release of exosomes containing pro-angiogenic and immunosuppressive factors from malignant melanoma cells

EJ Ekström, C Bergenfelz, V von Bülow, F Serifler… - Molecular cancer, 2014 - Springer
Background Wnt proteins are important for developmental processes and certain diseases.
WNT5A is a non-canonical Wnt protein that previously has been shown to play a role in the …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular stratification of metastatic melanoma using gene expression profiling: Prediction of survival outcome and benefit from molecular targeted therapy

H Cirenajwis, H Ekedahl, M Lauss, K Harbst… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Melanoma is currently divided on a genetic level according to mutational status. However,
this classification does not optimally predict prognosis. In prior studies, we have defined …

RNA-seq analysis identifies different transcriptomic types and developmental trajectories of primary melanomas

M Kunz, H Löffler-Wirth, M Dannemann, E Willscher… - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Recent studies revealed trajectories of mutational events in early melanomagenesis, but the
accompanying changes in gene expression are far less understood. Therefore, we …