Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …

The cancer stem cell niche: how essential is the niche in regulating stemness of tumor cells?

V Plaks, N Kong, Z Werb - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are tumor cells that have the principal properties of self-renewal,
clonal tumor initiation capacity, and clonal long-term repopulation potential. CSCs reside in …

Single-cell analysis of human primary prostate cancer reveals the heterogeneity of tumor-associated epithelial cell states

H Song, HNW Weinstein, P Allegakoen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second most common malignancy in men worldwide and consists of a
mixture of tumor and non-tumor cell types. To characterize the prostate cancer tumor …

[HTML][HTML] The emergence of trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (TROP-2) as a novel cancer target

DM Goldenberg, R Stein, RM Sharkey - Oncotarget, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
TROP-2 is a glycoprotein first described as a surface marker of trophoblast cells, but
subsequently shown to be increased in many solid cancers, with lower expression in certain …

N-Myc drives neuroendocrine prostate cancer initiated from human prostate epithelial cells

JK Lee, JW Phillips, BA Smith, JW Park, T Stoyanova… - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
MYCN amplification and overexpression are common in neuroendocrine prostate cancer
(NEPC). However, the impact of aberrant N-Myc expression in prostate tumorigenesis and …

Dedifferentiation of committed epithelial cells into stem cells in vivo

PR Tata, H Mou, A Pardo-Saganta, R Zhao, M Prabhu… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Cellular plasticity contributes to the regenerative capacity of plants, invertebrates, teleost
fishes and amphibians. In vertebrates, differentiated cells are known to revert into replicating …

Identification of Sox9-dependent acinar-to-ductal reprogramming as the principal mechanism for initiation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

JL Kopp, G von Figura, E Mayes, FF Liu, CL Dubois… - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
Tumors are largely classified by histologic appearance, yet morphologic features do not
necessarily predict cellular origin. To determine the origin of pancreatic ductal …

Cells of origin in cancer

JE Visvader - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Both solid tumours and leukaemias show considerable histological and functional
heterogeneity. It is widely accepted that genetic lesions have a major role in determining …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular vesicles: the next generation of biomarkers for liquid biopsy-based prostate cancer diagnosis

B Pang, Y Zhu, J Ni, J Thompson, D Malouf, J Bucci… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of cancer death for males in western countries.
The current gold standard for PCa diagnosis-template needle biopsies-often does not …

Role of KEAP1/NRF2 and TP53 Mutations in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma Development and Radiation Resistance

Y Jeong, NT Hoang, A Lovejoy, H Stehr, AM Newman… - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) pathogenesis remains incompletely understood,
and biomarkers predicting treatment response remain lacking. Here, we describe novel …