Metastasis

S Gerstberger, Q Jiang, K Ganesh - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Most cancer-associated deaths occur due to metastasis, yet our understanding of metastasis
as an evolving, heterogeneous, systemic disease and of how to effectively treat it is still …

The expanding vistas of spatial transcriptomics

L Tian, F Chen, EZ Macosko - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
The formation and maintenance of tissue integrity requires complex, coordinated activities
by thousands of genes and their encoded products. Until recently, transcript levels could …

The emerging landscape of spatial profiling technologies

JR Moffitt, E Lundberg, H Heyn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved scale, multiplexing and resolution are establishing spatial nucleic acid and protein
profiling methods as a major pillar for cellular atlas building of complex samples, from …

Macrophage diversity in cancer revisited in the era of single-cell omics

RY Ma, A Black, BZ Qian - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) have multiple potent functions in cancer and, thus,
represent important therapeutic targets. These diverse functions highlight the heterogenous …

The single‐cell landscape of intratumoral heterogeneity and the immunosuppressive microenvironment in liver and brain metastases of breast cancer

Y Zou, F Ye, Y Kong, X Hu, X Deng, J Xie… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Distant metastasis remains the major cause of morbidity for breast cancer. Individuals with
liver or brain metastasis have an extremely poor prognosis and low response rates to anti …

Spatial profiling technologies illuminate the tumor microenvironment

O Elhanani, R Ben-Uri, L Keren - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is composed of many different cellular and acellular
components that together drive tumor growth, invasion, metastasis, and response to …

Metastatic colorectal cancer: mechanisms and emerging therapeutics

AE Shin, FG Giancotti, AK Rustgi - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) remains a lethal disease with an approximately 14% 5-
year survival rate. While early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) can be cured by surgery with …

Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer

X Zheng, X Wang, X Cheng, Z Liu, Y Yin, X Li, Z Huang… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is an aggressive gynecological tumor usually diagnosed with
widespread metastases and ascites. Here, we depicted a single-cell landscape of the OC …

Pan-cancer spatially resolved single-cell analysis reveals the crosstalk between cancer-associated fibroblasts and tumor microenvironment

C Ma, C Yang, A Peng, T Sun, X Ji, J Mi, L Wei… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are a heterogeneous cell population that plays a
crucial role in remodeling the tumor microenvironment (TME). Here, through the integrated …

Single cell transcriptomic analyses implicate an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer liver metastasis

S Zhang, W Fang, S Zhou, D Zhu, R Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly metastatic disease refractory to all
targeted and immune therapies. However, our understanding of PDAC microenvironment …