Cholangiocarcinoma 2020: the next horizon in mechanisms and management

JM Banales, JJG Marin, A Lamarca… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) includes a cluster of highly heterogeneous biliary malignant
tumours that can arise at any point of the biliary tree. Their incidence is increasing globally …

Notch signaling in development, tissue homeostasis, and disease

C Siebel, U Lendahl - Physiological reviews, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Notch signaling is an evolutionarily highly conserved signaling mechanism, but in contrast to
signaling pathways such as Wnt, Sonic Hedgehog, and BMP/TGF-β, Notch signaling occurs …

Liver cancer cell of origin, molecular class, and effects on patient prognosis

D Sia, A Villanueva, SL Friedman, JM Llovet - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
Primary liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide and
therefore a major public health challenge. We review hypotheses of the cell of origin of liver …

New horizons for precision medicine in biliary tract cancers

JW Valle, A Lamarca, L Goyal, J Barriuso, AX Zhu - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Biliary tract cancers (BTC), including cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer, are poor-
prognosis and low-incidence cancers, although the incidence of intrahepatic …

Advances in targeted therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma in the genomic era

JM Llovet, A Villanueva, A Lachenmayer… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2015 - nature.com
Mortality owing to liver cancer has increased in the past 20 years, and the latest estimates
indicate that the global health burden of this disease will continue to grow. Most patients with …

Pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of cholangiocarcinoma

S Rizvi, GJ Gores - Gastroenterology, 2013 - Elsevier
Cholangiocarcinomas (CCAs) are hepatobiliary cancers with features of cholangiocyte
differentiation; they can be classified anatomically as intrahepatic CCA (iCCA), perihilar …

Notch as a tumour suppressor

CS Nowell, F Radtke - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The Notch signalling cascade is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that has a crucial role
in regulating development and homeostasis in various tissues. The cellular processes and …

Hippo pathway activity influences liver cell fate

D Yimlamai, C Christodoulou, GG Galli, K Yanger… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The Hippo-signaling pathway is an important regulator of cellular proliferation and organ
size. However, little is known about the role of this cascade in the control of cell fate …

Therapeutic modulation of Notch signalling—are we there yet?

ER Andersson, U Lendahl - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
The Notch signalling pathway is evolutionarily conserved and is crucial for the development
and homeostasis of most tissues. Deregulated Notch signalling leads to various diseases …

Functional and genetic deconstruction of the cellular origin in liver cancer

JU Marquardt, JB Andersen, SS Thorgeirsson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
During the past decade, research on primary liver cancers has particularly highlighted the
uncommon plasticity of differentiated parenchymal liver cells (that is, hepatocytes and …