Molecular and functional imaging in cancer-targeted therapy: current applications and future directions

JW Bai, SQ Qiu, GJ Zhang - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted anticancer drugs block cancer cell growth by interfering with specific signaling
pathways vital to carcinogenesis and tumor growth rather than harming all rapidly dividing …

Assessment and prediction of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: A comparison of imaging modalities and future perspectives

V Romeo, G Accardo, T Perillo, L Basso, N Garbino… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Nowadays patients affected by locally advanced breast cancer and
particular subtypes of early breast cancer may benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy …

Integrating mechanism-based modeling with biomedical imaging to build practical digital twins for clinical oncology

C Wu, G Lorenzo, DA Hormuth, EABF Lima… - Biophysics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital twins employ mathematical and computational models to virtually represent a
physical object (eg, planes and human organs), predict the behavior of the object, and …

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging and tumor forecasting of breast cancer patients in the community setting

AM Jarrett, AS Kazerouni, C Wu, J Virostko… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
This protocol describes a complete data acquisition, analysis and computational forecasting
pipeline for employing quantitative MRI data to predict the response of locally advanced …

Biologically-based mathematical modeling of tumor vasculature and angiogenesis via time-resolved imaging data

DA Hormuth, CM Phillips, C Wu, EABF Lima… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The recruitment of new vasculature via angiogenesis is a critical
component of tumor development, which fundamentally influences tumor growth and …

Recent advances in brachytherapy using radioactive nanoparticles: an alternative to seed-based brachytherapy

B Seniwal, VC Thipe, S Singh, TCF Fonseca… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Interstitial brachytherapy (BT) is generally used for the treatment of well-confined solid
tumors. One example of this is in the treatment of prostate tumors by permanent placement …

Quantifying tumor heterogeneity via MRI habitats to characterize microenvironmental alterations in HER2+ breast cancer

AS Kazerouni, DA Hormuth, T Davis, MJ Bloom… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Tumor heterogeneity influences tumor progression and response to
therapy, introducing a significant challenge in the treatment of breast cancer. We employed …

Forum on immune digital twins: a meeting report

R Laubenbacher, F Adler, G An, F Castiglione… - npj Systems Biology …, 2024 - nature.com
Medical digital twins are computational models of human biology relevant to a given medical
condition, which are tailored to an individual patient, thereby predicting the course of …

Copper metabolism and cuproptosis in human malignancies: Unraveling the complex interplay for therapeutic insights

KM Abdullah, JB Kaushal, S Takkar, G Sharma… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Copper, a vital trace element, orchestrates diverse cellular processes ranging from energy
production to antioxidant defense and angiogenesis. Copper metabolism and cuproptosis …

Towards patient-specific optimization of neoadjuvant treatment protocols for breast cancer based on image-guided fluid dynamics

C Wu, DA Hormuth, G Lorenzo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: This study establishes a fluid dynamics model personalized with patient-specific
imaging data to optimize neoadjuvant therapy (ie, doxorubicin) protocols for breast cancers …