Cancer as a Disease of Development Gone Awry

BZ Stanger, GM Wahl - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In the 160 years since Rudolf Virchow first postulated that neoplasia arises by the same law
that regulates embryonic development, scientists have come to recognize the striking …

Epigenetic markers and therapeutic targets for metastasis

CJ Kravitz, Q Yan, DX Nguyen - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2023 - Springer
The last few years have seen an increasing number of discoveries which collectively
demonstrate that histone and DNA modifying enzyme modulate different stages of …

Pan-cancer comparative and integrative analyses of driver alterations using Japanese and international genomic databases

S Horie, Y Saito, Y Kogure, K Mizuno, Y Ito, M Tabata… - Cancer Discovery, 2024 - AACR
Using 48,627 samples from the Center for Cancer Genomics and Advanced Therapeutics (C-
CAT), we present a pan-cancer landscape of driver alterations and their clinical actionability …

Differential DNA damage repair and PARP inhibitor vulnerability of the mammary epithelial lineages

H Kim, K Aliar, P Tharmapalan, CW McCloskey… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
It is widely assumed that all normal somatic cells can equally perform homologous
recombination (HR) and non-homologous end joining in the DNA damage response (DDR) …

A human breast cell atlas mapping the homeostatic cellular shifts in the adult breast

AD Reed, S Pensa, A Steif, J Stenning, DJ Kunz, P He… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
One of the barriers for breast cancer prevention and treatment is our poor understanding of
the dynamic cellular shifts that naturally occur within the breast and how these changes …

In vivo CRISPR screens reveal SCAF1 and USP15 as drivers of pancreatic cancer

S Martinez, S Wu, M Geuenich, A Malik… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Functionally characterizing the genetic alterations that drive pancreatic cancer is a
prerequisite for precision medicine. Here, we perform somatic CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis …

Disruption of lineage integrity as a precursor to breast tumor initiation

S Lin, R Margueron, E Charafe-Jauffret… - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Increase in lineage infidelity and/or imbalance is frequently observed around the earliest
stage of breast tumor initiation. In response to disruption of homeostasis, differentiated cells …

High-Throughput Identification, Modeling, and Analysis of Cancer Driver Genes In Vivo

YJ Tang, EG Shuldiner… - Cold Spring …, 2023 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The vast number of genomic and molecular alterations in cancer pose a substantial
challenge to uncovering the mechanisms of tumorigenesis and identifying therapeutic …

Tumor initiation and early tumorigenesis: molecular mechanisms and interventional targets

S Zhang, X Xiao, Y Yi, X Wang, L Zhu, Y Shen… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Tumorigenesis is a multistep process, with oncogenic mutations in a normal cell conferring
clonal advantage as the initial event. However, despite pervasive somatic mutations and …

Imagine beyond: recent breakthroughs and next challenges in mammary gland biology and breast cancer research

R Van Amerongen, M Bentires-Alj… - Journal of mammary …, 2023 - Springer
On 8 December 2022 the organizing committee of the European Network for Breast
Development and Cancer labs (ENBDC) held its fifth annual Think Tank meeting in …