Colorectal cancer: genetic abnormalities, tumor progression, tumor heterogeneity, clonal evolution and tumor-initiating cells

U Testa, E Pelosi, G Castelli - Medical Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Colon cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide. Most colorectal cancer
occurrences are sporadic, not related to genetic predisposition or family history; however, 20 …

The molecular hallmarks of the serrated pathway in colorectal cancer

FDE De Palma, V D'argenio, J Pol, G Kroemer… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide. It includes different
subtypes that differ in their clinical and prognostic features. In the past decade, in addition to …

Colonic organoids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells for modeling colorectal cancer and drug testing

M Crespo, E Vilar, SY Tsai, K Chang, S Amin… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
With the goal of modeling human disease of the large intestine, we sought to develop an
effective protocol for deriving colonic organoids (COs) from differentiated human embryonic …

Hereditary colorectal polyposis and cancer syndromes: a primer on diagnosis and management

P Kanth, J Grimmett, M Champine, R Burt… - Official journal of the …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer amongst men and women.
Between 3 and 6% of all CRCs are attributed to well-defined inherited syndromes, including …

Hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes

K Wells, PE Wise - Surgical Clinics, 2017 - surgical.theclinics.com
It is estimated that 20% to 30% of colorectal cancers (CRCs) are familial with 5% to 10%
related to a known genetic syndrome. 1, 2 The hereditary CRCs are broadly divided into …

Degree of tissue differentiation dictates susceptibility to BRAF-driven colorectal cancer

K Tong, O Pellón-Cárdenas, VR Sirihorachai… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Oncogenic mutations in BRAF are believed to initiate serrated colorectal cancers; however,
the mechanisms of BRAF-driven colon cancer are unclear. We find that oncogenic BRAF …

[HTML][HTML] Colorectal premalignancy is associated with consensus molecular subtypes 1 and 2

K Chang, JA Willis, J Reumers, MW Taggart… - Annals of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Gene expression-based profiling of colorectal cancer (CRC) can be used to
identify four molecularly homogeneous consensus molecular subtype (CMS) groups with …

Sessile serrated polyps and colon cancer prevention

S Rashtak, R Rego, SR Sweetser, FA Sinicrope - Cancer prevention …, 2017 - AACR
Evidence suggests that up to one fifth of colorectal carcinomas develop from serrated
polyps, named for their pattern of colonic crypts, and include the sessile serrated …

Enhanced SREBP2-driven cholesterol biosynthesis by PKCλ/ι deficiency in intestinal epithelial cells promotes aggressive serrated tumorigenesis

Y Muta, JF Linares, A Martinez-Ordoñez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The metabolic and signaling pathways regulating aggressive mesenchymal colorectal
cancer (CRC) initiation and progression through the serrated route are largely unknown …

Distinguishing colorectal adenoma from hyperplastic polyp by WNT2 expression

B Wang, X Wang, Y Tseng, M Huang… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Colorectal adenoma (CRA) is a classical premalignant lesion, with high
incidence and mainly coexisting with hyperplastic polyp (HPP). Hence, this study aimed to …