Lynch syndrome, molecular mechanisms and variant classification

AB Abildgaard, SV Nielsen, I Bernstein, A Stein… - British journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Patients with the heritable cancer disease, Lynch syndrome, carry germline variants in the
MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 genes, encoding the central components of the DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccines for immunoprevention of DNA mismatch repair deficient cancers

A Hernandez-Sanchez, M Grossman… - … for Immunotherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The development of cancer vaccines to induce tumor-antigen specific immune responses
was sparked by the identification of antigens specific to or overexpressed in cancer cells …

[HTML][HTML] Lynch syndrome genetics and clinical implications

P Peltomäki, M Nyström, JP Mecklin, TT Seppälä - Gastroenterology, 2023 - Elsevier
Lynch syndrome (LS) is one of the most prevalent hereditary cancer syndromes in humans
and accounts for some 3% of unselected patients with colorectal or endometrial cancer and …

Immunotherapy: recent advances and its future as a neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and primary treatment in colorectal cancer

I Yu, A Dakwar, K Takabe - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer (CRC) has made great strides within the past decade.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a class of immunotherapy and have been shown to greatly …

Lynch syndrome cancer vaccines: A roadmap for the development of precision immunoprevention strategies

S Sei, A Ahadova, DB Keskin, L Bohaumilitzky… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Hereditary cancer syndromes (HCS) account for 5~ 10% of all cancer diagnosis. Lynch
syndrome (LS) is one of the most common HCS, caused by germline mutations in the DNA …

Advances in vaccine development for cancer prevention and treatment in Lynch Syndrome

AM Bolivar, F Duzagac, KM Sinha, E Vilar - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Lynch Syndrome (LS) is one of the most common hereditary cancer syndromes, and is
caused by mutations in one of the four DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes, namely MLH1 …

[HTML][HTML] Hereditary cancer variants and homologous recombination deficiency in biliary tract cancer

Y Okawa, Y Iwasaki, TA Johnson, N Ebata, C Inai… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background & Aims The heritability and actionability of variants in homologous
recombination-related genes in biliary tract cancers (BTCs) are uncertain. Although …

[HTML][HTML] A highly sensitive pan-cancer test for microsatellite instability

JW Bacher, EB Udho, EE Strauss, I Vyazunova… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microsatellite instability (MSI) is an evolving biomarker for cancer detection and treatment.
MSI was first used to identify patients with Lynch syndrome, a hereditary form of colorectal …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning can predict bevacizumab therapeutic effect and microsatellite instability directly from histology in epithelial ovarian cancer

CW Wang, YC Lee, YJ Lin, NP Firdi, H Muzakky… - Laboratory …, 2023 - Elsevier
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) remains a significant cause of mortality among gynecologic
cancers, with the majority of cases being diagnosed at an advanced stage. Before targeted …

[HTML][HTML] Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer

RJ Kelly, K Bever, J Chao, KK Ciombor… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, including esophageal, gastroesophageal junction, gastric,
duodenal and distal small bowel, biliary tract, pancreatic, colon, rectal, and anal cancer …