Pancreatic cancer: pathogenesis, screening, diagnosis, and treatment

LD Wood, MI Canto, EM Jaffee, DM Simeone - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a clinically challenging cancer, due to both its
late stage at diagnosis and its resistance to chemotherapy. However, recent advances in our …

Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

[HTML][HTML] Lymph node colonization induces tumor-immune tolerance to promote distant metastasis

NE Reticker-Flynn, W Zhang, JA Belk, PA Basto… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
For many solid malignancies, lymph node (LN) involvement represents a harbinger of
distant metastatic disease and, therefore, an important prognostic factor. Beyond its utility as …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic characterization of metastatic patterns from prospective clinical sequencing of 25,000 patients

B Nguyen, C Fong, A Luthra, SA Smith, RG DiNatale… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Metastatic progression is the main cause of death in cancer patients, whereas the
underlying genomic mechanisms driving metastasis remain largely unknown. Here, we …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intra-tumoral heterogeneity and malignant progression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

J Peng, BF Sun, CY Chen, JY Zhou, YS Chen, H Chen… - Cell research, 2019 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common type of pancreatic cancer
featured with high intra-tumoral heterogeneity and poor prognosis. To comprehensively …

Transcription phenotypes of pancreatic cancer are driven by genomic events during tumor evolution

M Chan-Seng-Yue, JC Kim, GW Wilson, K Ng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma presents as a spectrum of a highly aggressive disease in
patients. The basis of this disease heterogeneity has proved difficult to resolve due to poor …

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: biological hallmarks, current status, and future perspectives of combined modality treatment approaches

M Orth, P Metzger, S Gerum, J Mayerle, G Schneider… - Radiation …, 2019 - Springer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly devastating disease with poor
prognosis and rising incidence. Late detection and a particularly aggressive biology are the …

Tumor microbiome diversity and composition influence pancreatic cancer outcomes

E Riquelme, Y Zhang, L Zhang, M Montiel, M Zoltan… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Most patients diagnosed with resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) survive less
than 5 years, but a minor subset survives longer. Here, we dissect the role of the tumor …

Resolving genetic heterogeneity in cancer

S Turajlic, A Sottoriva, T Graham… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
To a large extent, cancer conforms to evolutionary rules defined by the rates at which clones
mutate, adapt and grow. Next-generation sequencing has provided a snapshot of the …