Liquid biopsy at the frontier of detection, prognosis and progression monitoring in colorectal cancer

H Zhou, L Zhu, J Song, G Wang, P Li, W Li, P Luo… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and a leading
cause of carcinogenic death. To date, surgical resection is regarded as the gold standard by …

Enabling technologies for personalized and precision medicine

D Ho, SR Quake, ERB McCabe, WJ Chng… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Individualizing patient treatment is a core objective of the medical field. Reaching this
objective has been elusive owing to the complex set of factors contributing to both disease …

[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoint HLA-E: CD94-NKG2A mediates evasion of circulating tumor cells from NK cell surveillance

X Liu, J Song, H Zhang, X Liu, F Zuo, Y Zhao, Y Zhao… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs), shed by primary malignancies, function as" seeds" for distant
metastasis. However, it is still largely unknown how CTCs escape immune surveillance …

The colorectal cancer tumor microenvironment and its impact on liver and lung metastasis

R Chandra, JD Karalis, C Liu, GZ Murimwa, J Voth Park… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide.
Metastasis to secondary organs, such as the liver and lungs, is a key driver of CRC-related …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating biomarkers for early detection and clinical management of colorectal cancer

M Marcuello, V Vymetalkova, RPL Neves… - Molecular Aspects of …, 2019 - Elsevier
New non-invasive approaches that can complement and improve on current strategies for
colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and management are urgently needed. A growing …

Predictive biomarkers of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy in NSCLC

M Niu, M Yi, N Li, S Luo, K Wu - Experimental hematology & oncology, 2021 - Springer
Immunotherapy, especially anti-programmed cell death protein 1/programmed cell death
ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) treatment has significantly improved the survival of non-small cell …

CTC clusters in cancer progression and metastasis

A Fabisiewicz, E Grzybowska - Medical Oncology, 2017 - Springer
Circulating tumor cells (CTC) in the blood of cancer patients are regarded as potential
metastatic seeds, and their detailed characterization holds great promises for more exact …

Non-invasive colorectal cancer screening: an overview

M Tepus, TO Yau - Gastrointestinal tumors, 2020 - karger.com
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) follows a protracted stepwise progression, from
benign adenomas to malignant adenocarcinomas. If detected early, 90% of deaths are …

Discovery of rare cells from voluminous single cell expression data

A Jindal, P Gupta, Jayadeva, D Sengupta - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Single cell messenger RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides a window into transcriptional
landscapes in complex tissues. The recent introduction of droplet based transcriptomics …

Precision prevention and cancer interception: the new challenges of liquid biopsy

MJ Serrano, MC Garrido-Navas, JJ Diaz Mochon… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Despite major therapeutic progress, most advanced solid tumors are still incurable. Cancer
interception is the active way to combat cancer onset, and development of this approach …