Precision oncology in metastatic colorectal cancer—from biology to medicine

F Di Nicolantonio, PP Vitiello, S Marsoni… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
Remarkable progress has been made in the development of biomarker-driven targeted
therapies for patients with multiple cancer types, including melanoma, breast and lung …

The role of antigen processing and presentation in cancer and the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy

A Mpakali, E Stratikos - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A new class of drugs, termed Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, has
revolutionized cancer therapy during the last few years. Unfortunately, these drugs are only …

Substitution mutational signatures in whole-genome–sequenced cancers in the UK population

A Degasperi, X Zou, T Dias Amarante… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) permits comprehensive cancer genome analyses,
revealing mutational signatures, imprints of DNA damage, and repair processes that have …

Temozolomide treatment alters mismatch repair and boosts mutational burden in tumor and blood of colorectal cancer patients

G Crisafulli, A Sartore-Bianchi, L Lazzari, F Pietrantonio… - Cancer Discovery, 2022 - AACR
The majority of metastatic colorectal cancers (mCRC) are mismatch repair (MMR) proficient
and unresponsive to immunotherapy, whereas MMR-deficient (MMRd) tumors often respond …

The shared frameshift mutation landscape of microsatellite-unstable cancers suggests immunoediting during tumor evolution

A Ballhausen, MJ Przybilla, M Jendrusch… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The immune system can recognize and attack cancer cells, especially those with a high load
of mutation-induced neoantigens. Such neoantigens are abundant in DNA mismatch repair …

Werner helicase is a synthetic-lethal vulnerability in mismatch repair–deficient colorectal cancer refractory to targeted therapies, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy

G Picco, CM Cattaneo, EJ van Vliet, G Crisafulli… - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
Targeted therapies, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy are used to treat patients with
mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR)/microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) colorectal cancer …

Neoantigens and genome instability: impact on immunogenomic phenotypes and immunotherapy response

ER Mardis - Genome medicine, 2019 - Springer
The resurgence of immune therapies in cancer medicine has elicited a corresponding
interest in understanding the basis of patient response or resistance to these treatments …

Dendritic cell-targeted therapy expands CD8 T cell responses to bona-fide neoantigens in lung tumors

L López, LG Morosi, F La Terza, P Bourdely… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cross-presentation by type 1 DCs (cDC1) is critical to induce and sustain antitumoral CD8 T
cell responses to model antigens, in various tumor settings. However, the impact of cross …

Mechanisms of immune escape and resistance to checkpoint inhibitor therapies in mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancers

V Amodio, G Mauri, NM Reilly, A Sartore-Bianchi… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A subset of colorectal cancers (CRCs) is characterized by a mismatch
repair deficiency that is frequently associated with microsatellite instability (MSI). The …

Targeting the DNA damage response pathways and replication stress in colorectal cancer

E Durinikova, NM Reilly, K Buzo, E Mariella… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: Genomic instability is a hallmark of cancer and targeting DNA damage response
(DDR) is emerging as a promising therapeutic strategy in different solid tumors. The …