Biology, vulnerabilities and clinical applications of circulating tumour cells

A Ring, BD Nguyen-Sträuli, A Wicki, N Aceto - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, exceptional technological advances have enabled the identification and
interrogation of rare circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from blood samples of patients, leading …

Spatial omics and multiplexed imaging to explore cancer biology

SM Lewis, ML Asselin-Labat, Q Nguyen, J Berthelet… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding intratumoral heterogeneity—the molecular variation among cells within a
tumor—promises to address outstanding questions in cancer biology and improve the …

Modular, efficient and constant-memory single-cell RNA-seq preprocessing

P Melsted, AS Booeshaghi, L Liu, F Gao, L Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We describe a workflow for preprocessing of single-cell RNA-sequencing data that balances
efficiency and accuracy. Our workflow is based on the kallisto and bustools programs, and is …

Breast cancer as an example of tumour heterogeneity and tumour cell plasticity during malignant progression

F Lüönd, S Tiede, G Christofori - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Heterogeneity within a tumour increases its ability to adapt to constantly changing
constraints, but adversely affects a patient's prognosis, therapy response and clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Colorectal cancer cells enter a diapause-like DTP state to survive chemotherapy

SK Rehman, J Haynes, E Collignon, KR Brown… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer cells enter a reversible drug-tolerant persister (DTP) state to evade death from
chemotherapy and targeted agents. It is increasingly appreciated that DTPs are important …

The dormant cancer cell life cycle

TG Phan, PI Croucher - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
The success of targeted therapies and immunotherapies has created optimism that cancers
may be curable. However, not all patients respond, drug resistance is common and many …

Unravelling tumour heterogeneity by single-cell profiling of circulating tumour cells

L Keller, K Pantel - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies have contributed to unravelling tumour heterogeneity, now
considered a hallmark of cancer and one of the main causes of tumour resistance to cancer …

Cell–matrix interface regulates dormancy in human colon cancer stem cells

Y Ohta, M Fujii, S Takahashi, A Takano, K Nanki… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer relapse after chemotherapy remains a main cause of cancer-related death. Although
the relapse is thought to result from the propagation of resident cancer stem cells, a lack of …

Tracking cancer progression: From circulating tumor cells to metastasis

F Castro-Giner, N Aceto - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
The analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is an outstanding tool to provide insights into
the biology of metastatic cancers, to monitor disease progression and with potential for use …

Enhancing triple negative breast cancer immunotherapy by ICG‐templated self‐assembly of paclitaxel nanoparticles

B Feng, Z Niu, B Hou, L Zhou, Y Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Combination cancer immunotherapy has shown promising potential for simultaneously
eliciting antitumor immunity and modulating the immunosuppressive tumor …