Precision oncology in metastatic colorectal cancer—from biology to medicine

F Di Nicolantonio, PP Vitiello, S Marsoni… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
Remarkable progress has been made in the development of biomarker-driven targeted
therapies for patients with multiple cancer types, including melanoma, breast and lung …

Early‐onset colorectal cancer in young individuals

G Mauri, A Sartore‐Bianchi, AG Russo… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Treatment of young adults with colorectal cancer (CRC) represents an unmet clinical need,
especially as diagnosis in this population might lead to the greatest loss of years of life …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic and molecular landscape of DNA damage repair deficiency across the cancer genome atlas

TA Knijnenburg, L Wang, MT Zimmermann… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
DNA damage repair (DDR) pathways modulate cancer risk, progression, and therapeutic
response. We systematically analyzed somatic alterations to provide a comprehensive view …

TGFβ drives immune evasion in genetically reconstituted colon cancer metastasis

DVF Tauriello, S Palomo-Ponce, D Stork… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Most patients with colorectal cancer die as a result of the disease spreading to other organs.
However, no prevalent mutations have been associated with metastatic colorectal cancers …

Maftools: efficient and comprehensive analysis of somatic variants in cancer

A Mayakonda, DC Lin, Y Assenov, C Plass… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Numerous large-scale genomic studies of matched tumor-normal samples have established
the somatic landscapes of most cancer types. However, the downstream analysis of data …

EPIC: a tool to estimate the proportions of different cell types from bulk gene expression data

J Racle, D Gfeller - Bioinformatics for cancer immunotherapy: methods and …, 2020 - Springer
Gene expression profiling is nowadays routinely performed on clinically relevant samples
(eg, from tumor specimens). Such measurements are often obtained from bulk samples …

The landscape of somatic mutation in normal colorectal epithelial cells

H Lee-Six, S Olafsson, P Ellis, RJ Osborne… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The colorectal adenoma–carcinoma sequence has provided a paradigmatic framework for
understanding the successive somatic genetic changes and consequent clonal expansions …

Early-onset colorectal cancer: initial clues and current views

LJ Hofseth, JR Hebert, A Chanda, H Chen… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past several decades, the incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC; in
patients< 50 years old) has increased at an alarming rate. Although robust and scientifically …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer gene mutation frequencies for the US population

G Mendiratta, E Ke, M Aziz, D Liarakos, M Tong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mutations play a fundamental role in the development of cancer, and many create targetable
vulnerabilities. There are both public health and basic science benefits from the …

Analysis of Fusobacterium persistence and antibiotic response in colorectal cancer

S Bullman, CS Pedamallu, E Sicinska, TE Clancy… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Colorectal cancers comprise a complex mixture of malignant cells, nontransformed cells,
and microorganisms. Fusobacterium nucleatum is among the most prevalent bacterial …