Neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma: a 2020 systematic review and meta-analysis, and future perspectives on systemic …

JJ Leow, YL Chong, SL Chang, BP Valderrama… - European urology, 2021 - Elsevier
Context To improve the prognosis of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC), clinicians
have used neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) or adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) before or after …

Targeted therapies for advanced bladder cancer: new strategies with FGFR inhibitors

C Casadei, N Dizman, G Schepisi… - … in medical oncology, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Inhibitors of fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) represent an outstanding treatment
approach for selected patients with urothelial cancer (UC). These agents are changing the …

[HTML][HTML] Adjuvant chemotherapy in upper tract urothelial carcinoma (the POUT trial): a phase 3, open-label, randomised controlled trial

A Birtle, M Johnson, J Chester, R Jones, D Dolling… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Urothelial carcinomas of the upper urinary tract (UTUCs) are rare, with poorer
stage-for-stage prognosis than urothelial carcinomas of the urinary bladder. No international …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular classification and diagnostics of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma

Y Fujii, Y Sato, H Suzuki, N Kakiuchi, T Yoshizato… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is one of the common urothelial cancers. Its
molecular pathogenesis, however, is poorly understood, with no useful biomarkers available …

Clonal relatedness and mutational differences between upper tract and bladder urothelial carcinoma

F Audenet, S Isharwal, EK Cha, MTA Donoghue… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: To investigate genomic differences between urothelial carcinomas of the upper
tract (UTUC) and bladder (UCB), with a focus on defining the clonal relatedness of …

[HTML][HTML] Upper tract urothelial carcinoma has a luminal-papillary T-cell depleted contexture and activated FGFR3 signaling

BD Robinson, PJ Vlachostergios, B Bhinder… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is characterized by a distinctly aggressive clinical
phenotype. To define the biological features driving this phenotype, we performed an …

[HTML][HTML] Non-invasive detection of urothelial cancer through the analysis of driver gene mutations and aneuploidy

SU Springer, CH Chen, MDC Rodriguez Pena, L Li… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Current non-invasive approaches for detection of urothelial cancers are suboptimal. We
developed a test to detect urothelial neoplasms using DNA recovered from cells shed into …

Comprehensive genomic profiling of upper-tract and bladder urothelial carcinoma

A Necchi, R Madison, SK Pal, JS Ross, N Agarwal… - European urology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Characterization of the different genomic alterations (GAs) in urothelial
carcinoma (UC), by site of origin, may identify contrasting therapeutic opportunities and …

[HTML][HTML] Long non-coding RNA SOX2OT promotes the stemness phenotype of bladder cancer cells by modulating SOX2

Y Zhan, Z Chen, S He, Y Gong, A He, Y Li, L Zhang… - Molecular Cancer, 2020 - Springer
Background Accumulating evidence indicates that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are
potential biomarkers and key regulators of tumour development and progression. SOX2 …

Mutational analysis of 472 urothelial carcinoma across grades and anatomic sites

AH Nassar, R Umeton, J Kim, K Lundgren… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize the mutational landscape across the
spectrum of urothelial carcinoma (UC) to identify mutational features and potential …