Hepatocellular carcinoma: clinical frontiers and perspectives

J Bruix, GJ Gores, V Mazzaferro - Gut, 2014 - gut.bmj.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death and is
currently the main event leading to death in patients with cirrhosis. Evolving information …

The long and short of circulating cell-free DNA and the ins and outs of molecular diagnostics

P Jiang, YMD Lo - Trends in Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
The discovery of cell-free tumor and fetal DNA molecules in the plasma of cancer patients
and pregnant women, respectively, has opened up exciting opportunities in molecular …

Human primary liver cancer–derived organoid cultures for disease modeling and drug screening

L Broutier, G Mastrogiovanni, MMA Verstegen… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Human liver cancer research currently lacks in vitro models that can faithfully recapitulate
the pathophysiology of the original tumor. We recently described a novel, near-physiological …

Lengthening and shortening of plasma DNA in hepatocellular carcinoma patients

P Jiang, CWM Chan, KCA Chan… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The analysis of tumor-derived circulating cell-free DNA opens up new possibilities for
performing liquid biopsies for the assessment of solid tumors. Although its clinical potential …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the hallmarks of lung adenocarcinoma with massively parallel sequencing

M Imielinski, AH Berger, PS Hammerman… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Lung adenocarcinoma, the most common subtype of non-small cell lung cancer, is
responsible for more than 500,000 deaths per year worldwide. Here, we report exome and …

Whole-genome mutational landscape and characterization of noncoding and structural mutations in liver cancer

A Fujimoto, M Furuta, Y Totoki, T Tsunoda, M Kato… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Liver cancer, which is most often associated with virus infection, is prevalent worldwide, and
its underlying etiology and genomic structure are heterogeneous. Here we provide a whole …

Integrated analysis of somatic mutations and focal copy-number changes identifies key genes and pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma

C Guichard, G Amaddeo, S Imbeaud, Y Ladeiro… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver malignancy. Here, we
performed high-resolution copy-number analysis on 125 HCC tumors and whole-exome …

Cancer exome analysis reveals a T-cell-dependent mechanism of cancer immunoediting

H Matsushita, MD Vesely, DC Koboldt, CG Rickert… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Cancer immunoediting, the process by which the immune system controls tumour outgrowth
and shapes tumour immunogenicity, is comprised of three phases: elimination, equilibrium …

Whole-genome analysis informs breast cancer response to aromatase inhibition

MJ Ellis, L Ding, D Shen, J Luo, VJ Suman, JW Wallis… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
To correlate the variable clinical features of oestrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer with
somatic alterations, we studied pretreatment tumour biopsies accrued from patients in two …

Genome-wide survey of recurrent HBV integration in hepatocellular carcinoma

WK Sung, H Zheng, S Li, R Chen, X Liu, Y Li, NP Lee… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
To survey hepatitis B virus (HBV) integration in liver cancer genomes, we conducted
massively parallel sequencing of 81 HBV-positive and 7 HBV-negative hepatocellular …