Biology, vulnerabilities and clinical applications of circulating tumour cells

A Ring, BD Nguyen-Sträuli, A Wicki, N Aceto - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, exceptional technological advances have enabled the identification and
interrogation of rare circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from blood samples of patients, leading …

Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy

J Wang, Y Li, G Nie - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecule-based nanostructures are inherently multifunctional and harbour diverse
biological activities, which can be explored for cancer nanomedicine. The supramolecular …

Spatially resolved clonal copy number alterations in benign and malignant tissue

A Erickson, M He, E Berglund, M Marklund… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Defining the transition from benign to malignant tissue is fundamental to improving early
diagnosis of cancer. Here we use a systematic approach to study spatial genome integrity in …

MRI-targeted or standard biopsy for prostate-cancer diagnosis

V Kasivisvanathan, AS Rannikko… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with or without targeted
biopsy, is an alternative to standard transrectal ultrasonography–guided biopsy for prostate …

Molecular landmarks of tumor hypoxia across cancer types

V Bhandari, C Hoey, LY Liu, E Lalonde, J Ray… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Many primary-tumor subregions have low levels of molecular oxygen, termed hypoxia.
Hypoxic tumors are at elevated risk for local failure and distant metastasis, but the molecular …

Tumour heterogeneity and resistance to cancer therapies

I Dagogo-Jack, AT Shaw - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer is a dynamic disease. During the course of disease, cancers generally become more
heterogeneous. As a result of this heterogeneity, the bulk tumour might include a diverse …

Clinical implications of intratumor heterogeneity: challenges and opportunities

S Ramón y Cajal, M Sesé, C Capdevila… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
In this review, we highlight the role of intratumoral heterogeneity, focusing on the clinical and
biological ramifications this phenomenon poses. Intratumoral heterogeneity arises through …

Surveillance or metastasis-directed therapy for oligometastatic prostate cancer recurrence: a prospective, randomized, multicenter phase II trial

P Ost, D Reynders, K Decaestecker… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Retrospective studies suggest that metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) for
oligorecurrent prostate cancer (PCa) improves progression-free survival. We aimed to …

Genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity in prostate cancer

MC Haffner, W Zwart, MP Roudier, LD True… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
From a clinical, morphological and molecular perspective, prostate cancer is a
heterogeneous disease. Primary prostate cancers are often multifocal, having …

Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …