Analysis of DNA methylation in cancer: location revisited

A Koch, SC Joosten, Z Feng, TC de Ruijter… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in DNA methylation in cancer have been heralded as promising targets
for the development of powerful diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive biomarkers. Despite …

DNA methylation profiling in the clinic: applications and challenges

H Heyn, M Esteller - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of epigenetic alterations in disease is rapidly increasing owing to the
development of genome-wide techniques for their identification. The ever-growing number …

Cancer epigenetics reaches mainstream oncology

M Rodríguez-Paredes, M Esteller - Nature medicine, 2011 - nature.com
Epigenetics is one of the most promising and expanding fields in the current biomedical
research landscape. Since the inception of epigenetics in the 1940s, the discoveries …

Epigenetics in cancer

M Esteller - New England Journal of Medicine, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
Gene transcription can be activated or inhibited by a reversible modification of the gene; this
modification is termed an epigenetic change. This account of epigenetics in cancer reviews …

Invited review: oxidation of biological systems: oxidative stress phenomena, antioxidants, redox reactions, and methods for their quantification

R Kohen, A Nyska - Toxicologic pathology, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and other radicals are involved in a variety of biological
phenomena, such as mutation, carcinogenesis, degenerative and other diseases …

Gene silencing in cancer in association with promoter hypermethylation

JG Herman, SB Baylin - New England Journal of Medicine, 2003 - Mass Medical Soc
This article reviews the mechanisms of gene silencing in cancer and clinical applications of
this phenomenon. The silencing of genes, especially tumor-suppressor genes, is a key …

Biomarkers in cancer staging, prognosis and treatment selection

JA Ludwig, JN Weinstein - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2005 - nature.com
Advances in genomics, proteomics and molecular pathology have generated many
candidate biomarkers with potential clinical value. Their use for cancer staging and …

The power and the promise of DNA methylation markers

PW Laird - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2003 - nature.com
The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in the epigenetics of cancer. This has
been a consequence of both the exciting coalescence of the chromatin and DNA …

Human prostate cancer risk factors

DG Bostwick, HB Burke, D Djakiew… - … Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer has the highest prevalence of any nonskin cancer in the human body, with
similar likelihood of neoplastic foci found within the prostates of men around the world …

Phosphatidylserine: A cancer cell targeting biomarker

B Sharma, SS Kanwar - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Cancer is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity globally. Many prominent cancer-
associated molecules have been identified over the recent years which include EGFR …