Biology, vulnerabilities and clinical applications of circulating tumour cells

A Ring, BD Nguyen-Sträuli, A Wicki, N Aceto - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, exceptional technological advances have enabled the identification and
interrogation of rare circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from blood samples of patients, leading …

Clocks, cancer, and chronochemotherapy

A Sancar, RN Van Gelder - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The core of the mammalian circadian clock mechanism is a time-delayed
transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL), which influences the transcription and …

Interplay between circadian clock and cancer: new frontiers for cancer treatment

G Sulli, MTY Lam, S Panda - Trends in cancer, 2019 - cell.com
Circadian clocks constitute the evolutionary molecular machinery that dictates the temporal
regulation of physiology to maintain homeostasis. Disruption of the circadian rhythm plays a …

Circadian rhythms and cancers: the intrinsic links and therapeutic potentials

L Zhou, Z Zhang, E Nice, C Huang, W Zhang… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
The circadian rhythm is an evolutionarily conserved time-keeping system that comprises a
wide variety of processes including sleep–wake cycles, eating–fasting cycles, and activity …

Circadian regulation of drug responses: toward sex-specific and personalized chronotherapy

FA Lévi, A Okyar, E Hadadi… - Annual review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Today's challenge for precision medicine involves the integration of the impact of molecular
clocks on drug pharmacokinetics, toxicity, and efficacy toward personalized chronotherapy …

Dosing time matters

MD Ruben, DF Smith, GA FitzGerald, JB Hogenesch - Science, 2019 - science.org
Physicians diagnose and administer treatment as needed; time of day is rarely considered.
Yet, accumulating evidence shows that our molecular clocks orchestrate 24-hour circadian …

Toxicity and efficacy of chronomodulated chemotherapy: a systematic review

MI Printezi, AB Kilgallen, MJG Bond, U Štibler… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Timing chemotherapy on the basis of the body's intrinsic circadian clock—ie,
chronomodulated chemotherapy—might improve efficacy and reduce treatment toxicity. This …

Circulating tumor cells: from new biological insights to clinical practice

X Gu, S Wei, X Lv - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The primary reason for high mortality rates among cancer patients is metastasis, where
tumor cells migrate through the bloodstream from the original site to other parts of the body …

Circadian rhythm disruption in cancer biology

C Savvidis, M Koutsilieris - Molecular medicine, 2012 - Springer
Circadian rhythms show universally a 24-h oscillation pattern in metabolic, physiological
and behavioral functions of almost all species. This pattern is due to a fundamental …

Sex differences in circadian timing systems: implications for disease

M Bailey, R Silver - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2014 - Elsevier
Virtually every eukaryotic cell has an endogenous circadian clock and a biological sex.
These cell-based clocks have been conceptualized as oscillators whose phase can be reset …