Small-cell lung cancer

CM Rudin, E Brambilla, C Faivre-Finn… - Nature Reviews Disease …, 2021 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) represents about 15% of all lung cancers and is marked by
an exceptionally high proliferative rate, strong predilection for early metastasis and poor …

Clinical insights into small cell lung cancer: Tumor heterogeneity, diagnosis, therapy, and future directions

Z Megyesfalvi, CM Gay, H Popper… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is characterized by rapid growth and high metastatic capacity.
It has strong epidemiologic and biologic links to tobacco carcinogens. Although the majority …

Small-cell lung cancer: what we know, what we need to know and the path forward

AF Gazdar, PA Bunn, JD Minna - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a deadly tumour accounting for approximately 15% of lung
cancers and is pathologically, molecularly, biologically and clinically very different from other …

SOX2 promotes lineage plasticity and antiandrogen resistance in TP53- and RB1-deficient prostate cancer

P Mu, Z Zhang, M Benelli, WR Karthaus, E Hoover… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Some cancers evade targeted therapies through a mechanism known as lineage plasticity,
whereby tumor cells acquire phenotypic characteristics of a cell lineage whose survival no …

[HTML][HTML] Lung neuroendocrine neoplasms: recent progress and persistent challenges

N Rekhtman - Modern Pathology, 2022 - Elsevier
This review summarizes key recent developments relevant to the pathologic diagnosis of
lung neuroendocrine neoplasms, including carcinoids, small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) …

Unravelling the biology of SCLC: implications for therapy

JK Sabari, BH Lok, JH Laird, JT Poirier… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2017 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy associated with a poor
prognosis. First-line treatment has remained unchanged for decades, and a paucity of …

Mechanisms of small cell lung cancer metastasis

J Ko, MM Winslow, J Sage - EMBO molecular medicine, 2021 - embopress.org
Metastasis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. However, the
molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the ability of cancer cells to metastasize …

[PDF][PDF] ASCL1 and NEUROD1 reveal heterogeneity in pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors and regulate distinct genetic programs

MD Borromeo, TK Savage, RK Kollipara, M He… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) is a high-grade pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor. The
transcription factors ASCL1 and NEUROD1 play crucial roles in promoting malignant …

Next-generation sequencing of pulmonary large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma reveals small cell carcinoma–like and non–small cell carcinoma–like subsets

N Rekhtman, MC Pietanza, MD Hellmann… - Clinical Cancer …, 2016 - AACR
Purpose: Pulmonary large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) is a highly aggressive
neoplasm, whose biologic relationship to small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) versus non …

[PDF][PDF] MYC drives progression of small cell lung cancer to a variant neuroendocrine subtype with vulnerability to aurora kinase inhibition

G Mollaoglu, MR Guthrie, S Böhm, J Brägelmann, I Can… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Loss of the tumor suppressors RB1 and TP53 and MYC amplification are frequent
oncogenic events in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). We show that Myc expression …