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 …

Microenvironment-driven intratumoral heterogeneity in head and neck cancers: clinical challenges and opportunities for precision medicine

H Zaryouh, M Vara-Messler, J Vignau… - Drug Resistance …, 2022 - Elsevier
Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) is among the most prevalent
cancer types worldwide. Despite multimodal therapeutic approaches that include surgical …

Estimation of the percentage of US patients with cancer who benefit from genome-driven oncology

J Marquart, EY Chen, V Prasad - JAMA oncology, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance To date, the benefit of genome-driven cancer therapy has not been quantified.
Objective We sought to estimate the annual percentage of patients in the United States with …

Single cell analysis in head and neck cancer reveals potential immune evasion mechanisms during early metastasis

HS Quah, EY Cao, L Suteja, CH Li, HS Leong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Profiling tumors at single-cell resolution provides an opportunity to understand complexities
underpinning lymph-node metastases in head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma. Single …

Longitudinal single-cell RNA sequencing of patient-derived primary cells reveals drug-induced infidelity in stem cell hierarchy

A Sharma, EY Cao, V Kumar, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Chemo-resistance is one of the major causes of cancer-related deaths. Here we used single-
cell transcriptomics to investigate divergent modes of chemo-resistance in tumor cells. We …

Novel prognostic clinical factors and biomarkers for outcome prediction in head and neck cancer: a systematic review

V Budach, I Tinhofer - The Lancet Oncology, 2019 - thelancet.com
Current algorithms for the clinical management of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of
the head and neck (HNSCC) are based on a stage-dependent strategy where all patients at …

Long noncoding RNA EGFR-AS1 mediates epidermal growth factor receptor addiction and modulates treatment response in squamous cell carcinoma

DSW Tan, FT Chong, HS Leong, SY Toh, DP Lau… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Targeting EGFR is a validated approach in the treatment of squamous-cell cancers (SCCs),
although there are no established biomarkers for predicting response. We have identified a …

Predicting cancer drug response using a recommender system

C Suphavilai, D Bertrand, N Nagarajan - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation As we move toward an era of precision medicine, the ability to predict patient-
specific drug responses in cancer based on molecular information such as gene expression …

An ex vivo platform to guide drug combination treatment in relapsed/refractory lymphoma

J Goh, S De Mel, MM Hoppe… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
Although combination therapy is the standard of care for relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma (RR-NHL), combination treatment chosen for an individual patient is empirical …

Zebrafish avatars towards personalized medicine—a comparative review between avatar models

B Costa, MF Estrada, RV Mendes, R Fior - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer frequency and prevalence have been increasing in the past decades, with
devastating impacts on patients and their families. Despite the great advances in targeted …