Resolving genetic heterogeneity in cancer

S Turajlic, A Sottoriva, T Graham… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
To a large extent, cancer conforms to evolutionary rules defined by the rates at which clones
mutate, adapt and grow. Next-generation sequencing has provided a snapshot of the …

Clonal heterogeneity and tumor evolution: past, present, and the future

N McGranahan, C Swanton - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Intratumor heterogeneity, which fosters tumor evolution, is a key challenge in cancer
medicine. Here, we review data and technologies that have revealed intra-tumor …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of lung cancer and impact of subclonal selection in TRACERx

AM Frankell, M Dietzen, M Al Bakir, EL Lim, T Karasaki… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. Here we
analysed 1,644 tumour regions sampled at surgery or during follow-up from the first 421 …

A cellular hierarchy framework for understanding heterogeneity and predicting drug response in acute myeloid leukemia

AGX Zeng, S Bansal, L Jin, A Mitchell, WC Chen… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The treatment landscape of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is evolving, with promising
therapies entering clinical translation, yet patient responses remain heterogeneous, and …

Neoantigen quality predicts immunoediting in survivors of pancreatic cancer

M Łuksza, ZM Sethna, LA Rojas, J Lihm, B Bravi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunoediting is a hallmark of cancer that predicts that lymphocytes kill more
immunogenic cancer cells to cause less immunogenic clones to dominate a population …

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 …

Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer

VP Balachandran, M Łuksza, JN Zhao, V Makarov… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a lethal cancer with fewer than 7% of patients
surviving past 5 years. T-cell immunity has been linked to the exceptional outcome of the few …

Resistance to checkpoint blockade therapy through inactivation of antigen presentation

M Sade-Feldman, YJ Jiao, JH Chen… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment with immune checkpoint blockade (CPB) therapies often leads to
prolonged responses in patients with metastatic melanoma, but the common mechanisms of …

Machine learning approaches to drug response prediction: challenges and recent progress

G Adam, L Rampášek, Z Safikhani, P Smirnov… - NPJ precision …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Identifying the best treatment using
computational models to personalize drug response prediction holds great promise to …

Challenges in neoantigen-directed therapeutics

L Lybaert, S Lefever, B Fant, E Smits, B De Geest… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental prerequisite for the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy is the presence of
functional, antigen-specific T cells within the tumor. Neoantigen-directed therapy is a …