Intra-and intertumoral heterogeneity of liver metastases in a patient with uveal melanoma revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

W Lin, AB Beasley, NM Ardakani… - Molecular …, 2021 - molecularcasestudies.cshlp.org
Tumor heterogeneity is a major obstacle to the success of cancer treatment. An accurate
understanding and recognition of tumor heterogeneity is critical in the clinical management …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular characteristics of liver metastases from uveal melanoma

T Meir, R Dror, X Yu, J Qian, I Simon… - … & visual science, 2007 - arvojournals.org
purpose. The liver is the most common site of systemic metastases from uveal melanoma
(UM). Such metastases usually continue to develop despite the application of current …

Molecular pathways mediating liver metastasis in patients with uveal melanoma

S Bakalian, JC Marshall, P Logan, D Faingold… - Clinical Cancer …, 2008 - AACR
Uveal melanoma arises from melanocytes located in the uveal tract of the eye and is the
most common primary intraocular tumor in adults. Metastatic liver disease is the …

Expression analysis of genes and pathways associated with liver metastases of the uveal melanoma

Y Zhang, Y Yang, L Chen, J Zhang - BMC medical genetics, 2014 - Springer
Background Uveal melanoma is an aggressive cancer which has a high percentage
metastasizing to the liver, with a worse prognosis. Identification of patients at high risk of …

Transcriptome profiling reveals new insights into the immune microenvironment and upregulation of novel biomarkers in metastatic uveal melanoma

Y Krishna, A Acha-Sagredo, D Sabat-Pośpiech… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare aggressive eye cancer. Although
treatment of the eye tumour is successful, about 50% of UM patients develop a relapse of …

Radiologic and histopathologic correlation of different growth patterns of metastatic uveal melanoma to the liver

A Liao, P Mittal, DH Lawson, JJ Yang, E Szalai… - Ophthalmology, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this study was to correlate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
radiographic results with histopathologic growth patterns of metastatic uveal melanoma …

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals intratumoral heterogeneity in primary uveal melanomas and identifies HES6 as a driver of the metastatic disease

C Pandiani, T Strub, N Nottet, Y Cheli… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Intratumor heterogeneity has been recognized in numerous cancers as a major source of
metastatic dissemination. In uveal melanomas, the existence and identity of specific …

Progression of ocular melanoma metastasis to the liver: the 2012 Zimmerman lecture

HE Grossniklaus - JAMA ophthalmology, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance To the best of my knowledge, this study demonstrates for the first time small,
apparently dormant micrometastasis in the liver of patients with uveal melanoma. Objective …

Organ specific copy number variations in visceral metastases of human melanoma

O Papp, V Doma, J Gil, G Markó-Varga, S Kárpáti… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Malignant melanoma is a highly metastatic disease disseminating to
several distant sites. This potential is also of great clinical impact for patient survival and …

Comparative exome sequencing of metastatic lesions provides insights into the mutational progression of melanoma

JJ Gartner, S Davis, X Wei, JC Lin, NS Trivedi, JK Teer… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Metastasis is characterized by spreading of neoplastic cells to an organ other
than where they originated and is the predominant cause of death among cancer patients …