Molecular biology of bladder cancer: new insights into pathogenesis and clinical diversity

MA Knowles, CD Hurst - Nature reviews cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Urothelial carcinoma of the bladder comprises two long-recognized disease entities with
distinct molecular features and clinical outcome. Low-grade non-muscle-invasive tumours …

Modelling bladder cancer in mice: opportunities and challenges

T Kobayashi, TB Owczarek, JM McKiernan… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The prognosis and treatment of bladder cancer have improved little in the past 20 years.
Bladder cancer remains a debilitating and often fatal disease, and is among the most costly …

Single-cell RNA sequencing highlights the role of inflammatory cancer-associated fibroblasts in bladder urothelial carcinoma

Z Chen, L Zhou, L Liu, Y Hou, M Xiong, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although substantial progress has been made in cancer biology and treatment, clinical
outcomes of bladder carcinoma (BC) patients are still not satisfactory. The tumor …

An integrated multi-omics analysis identifies prognostic molecular subtypes of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

SV Lindskrog, F Prip, P Lamy, A Taber… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The molecular landscape in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is characterized
by large biological heterogeneity with variable clinical outcomes. Here, we perform an …

Tumor evolution and drug response in patient-derived organoid models of bladder cancer

SH Lee, W Hu, JT Matulay, MV Silva, TB Owczarek… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Bladder cancer is the fifth most prevalent cancer in the US, yet is understudied, and few
laboratory models exist that reflect the biology of the human disease. Here, we describe a …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive molecular characterization of urothelial bladder carcinoma

Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network - Nature, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Urothelial carcinoma of the bladder is a common malignancy that causes approximately
150,000 deaths per year worldwide. So far, no molecularly targeted agents have been …

Intrinsic subtypes of high-grade bladder cancer reflect the hallmarks of breast cancer biology

JS Damrauer, KA Hoadley, DD Chism… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
We sought to define whether there are intrinsic molecular subtypes of high-grade bladder
cancer. Consensus clustering performed on gene expression data from a meta-dataset of …

Inhibition of the CCL2 receptor, CCR2, enhances tumor response to immune checkpoint therapy

MM Tu, HA Abdel-Hafiz, RT Jones, A Jean… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapies targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 axis are now a mainstay in the clinical
management of multiple cancer types, however, many tumors still fail to respond. CCL2 is …

Molecular classification of urothelial carcinoma: global mRNA classification versus tumour‐cell phenotype classification

G Sjödahl, P Eriksson, F Liedberg… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Global mRNA expression analysis is efficient for phenotypic profiling of tumours, and has
been used to define molecular subtypes for almost every major tumour type. A key limitation …

Clonal relatedness and mutational differences between upper tract and bladder urothelial carcinoma

F Audenet, S Isharwal, EK Cha, MTA Donoghue… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: To investigate genomic differences between urothelial carcinomas of the upper
tract (UTUC) and bladder (UCB), with a focus on defining the clonal relatedness of …