Hallmarks of cancer: new dimensions

D Hanahan - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
The hallmarks of cancer conceptualization is a heuristic tool for distilling the vast complexity
of cancer phenotypes and genotypes into a provisional set of underlying principles. As …

Epigenetic alterations in the gastrointestinal tract: current and emerging use for biomarkers of cancer

WM Grady - Advances in cancer research, 2021 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. One of the
hallmarks of cancer and a fundamental trait of virtually all gastrointestinal cancers is …

The key role of epigenetics in human disease prevention and mitigation

AP Feinberg - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Epigenetics in Disease Prevention and Mitigation Epigenetics is the regulation of gene
expression through alterations in DNA or associated factors (other than the DNA sequence) …

Genetic mechanisms of immune evasion in colorectal cancer

CS Grasso, M Giannakis, DK Wells, T Hamada, XJ Mu… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
To understand the genetic drivers of immune recognition and evasion in colorectal cancer,
we analyzed 1,211 colorectal cancer primary tumor samples, including 179 classified as …

The DNA methylation landscape in cancer

K Skvortsova, C Stirzaker, P Taberlay - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
As one of the most abundant and well-studied epigenetic modifications, DNA methylation
plays an essential role in normal development and cellular biology. Global alterations to the …

Identification of methylation haplotype blocks aids in deconvolution of heterogeneous tissue samples and tumor tissue-of-origin mapping from plasma DNA

S Guo, D Diep, N Plongthongkum, HL Fung, K Zhang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Adjacent CpG sites in mammalian genomes can be co-methylated owing to the processivity
of methyltransferases or demethylases, yet discordant methylation patterns have also been …

Genome-wide identification of differentially methylated promoters and enhancers associated with response to anti-PD-1 therapy in non-small cell lung cancer

JW Cho, MH Hong, SJ Ha, YJ Kim, BC Cho… - … & molecular medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Although approved programmed cell death protein (PD)-1 inhibitors show durable
responses, clinical benefits to these agents are only seen in one-third of patients in most …

MYC deregulation in primary human cancers

M Kalkat, J De Melo, KA Hickman, C Lourenco… - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
MYC regulates a complex biological program by transcriptionally activating and repressing
its numerous target genes. As such, MYC is a master regulator of many processes, including …

The role of enhancers in cancer

I Sur, J Taipale - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Enhancer elements function as the logic gates of the genetic regulatory circuitry. One of their
most important functions is the integration of extracellular signals with intracellular cell fate …

Overview on clinical relevance of intra-tumor heterogeneity

G Stanta, S Bonin - Frontiers in medicine, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Today, clinical evaluation of tumor heterogeneity is an emergent issue to improve clinical
oncology. In particular, intra-tumor heterogeneity (ITH) is closely related to cancer …