The journey from melanocytes to melanoma

PP Centeno, V Pavet, R Marais - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, melanoma has led the field in new cancer treatments, with impressive
gains in on-treatment survival but more modest improvements in overall survival. Melanoma …

Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel

S Yuan, J Almagro, E Fuchs - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer has long been viewed as a genetic disease of cumulative mutations. This notion is
fuelled by studies showing that ageing tissues are often riddled with clones of complex …

Tumor-intrinsic SIRPA promotes sensitivity to checkpoint inhibition immunotherapy in melanoma

Z Zhou, MJM Chen, Y Luo, K Mojumdar, X Peng… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Checkpoint inhibition immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but many
patients show resistance. Here we perform integrative transcriptomic and proteomic …

Modeling the tumor microenvironment and cancer immunotherapy in next-generation humanized mice

A Chen, I Neuwirth, D Herndler-Brandstetter - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A bottleneck in oncology is the translation of results from preclinical
models to the clinics. The rate of anticancer drugs that are effective in preclinical studies but …

Origins of cancer: ain't it just mature cells misbehaving?

CJ Cho, JW Brown, JC Mills - The EMBO Journal, 2024 - embopress.org
A pervasive view is that undifferentiated stem cells are alone responsible for generating all
other cells and are the origins of cancer. However, emerging evidence demonstrates fully …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution and impact of high content imaging

GP Way, H Sailem, S Shave, R Kasprowicz… - Slas Discovery, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract/outline The field of high content imaging has steadily evolved and expanded
substantially across many industry and academic research institutions since it was first …

Functional analysis of recurrent CDC20 promoter variants in human melanoma

PM Godoy, A Oyedeji, JL Mudd, VA Morikis… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Small nucleotide variants in non-coding regions of the genome can alter transcriptional
regulation, leading to changes in gene expression which can activate oncogenic gene …

The role of macrophages in non-small cell lung cancer and advancements in 3D co-cultures

K Balážová, H Clevers, AFM Dost - elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Traditional
therapeutic approaches such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy have provided only a …

Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy Synergizing with Inhibition of Tumor Neutrophil Ferroptosis Boosts Anti‐PD‐1 Therapy of Gastric Cancer

X Zhu, W Zheng, X Wang, Z Li, X Shen… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
For tumor treatment, the ultimate goal in tumor therapy is to eliminate the primary tumor,
manage potential metastases, and trigger an antitumor immune response, resulting in the …

Adaptation of a mutual exclusivity framework to identify driver mutations within oncogenic pathways

X Wang, C Kostrzewa, A Reiner, R Shen… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Distinguishing genomic alterations in cancer-associated genes that have functional impact
on tumor growth and disease progression from the ones that are passengers and confer no …