Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

Insights into molecular classifications of triple-negative breast cancer: improving patient selection for treatment

AC Garrido-Castro, NU Lin, K Polyak - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most challenging breast cancer subtype
to treat. To date, therapies directed to specific molecular targets have rarely achieved …

Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis

S Garcia-Recio, T Hinoue, GL Wheeler, BJ Kelly… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The AURORA US Metastasis Project was established with the goal to identify
molecular features associated with metastasis. We assayed 55 females with metastatic …

A single‐cell RNA expression atlas of normal, preneoplastic and tumorigenic states in the human breast

B Pal, Y Chen, F Vaillant, BD Capaldo, R Joyce… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
To examine global changes in breast heterogeneity across different states, we determined
the single‐cell transcriptomes of> 340,000 cells encompassing normal breast, preneoplastic …

Clinical implications of intratumor heterogeneity: challenges and opportunities

S Ramón y Cajal, M Sesé, C Capdevila… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
In this review, we highlight the role of intratumoral heterogeneity, focusing on the clinical and
biological ramifications this phenomenon poses. Intratumoral heterogeneity arises through …

Immunosuppressive reprogramming of neutrophils by lung mesenchymal cells promotes breast cancer metastasis

Z Gong, Q Li, J Shi, P Li, L Hua, LD Shultz… - Science immunology, 2023 - science.org
Neutrophils, the most abundant innate immune cells, function as crucial regulators of the
adaptive immune system in diverse pathological conditions, including metastatic cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid-laden lung mesenchymal cells foster breast cancer metastasis via metabolic reprogramming of tumor cells and natural killer cells

Z Gong, Q Li, J Shi, ET Liu, LD Shultz, G Ren - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
While the distant organ environment is known to support metastasis of primary tumors, its
metabolic roles in this process remain underdetermined. Here, in breast cancer models, we …

Multi-cancer analysis of clonality and the timing of systemic spread in paired primary tumors and metastases

Z Hu, Z Li, Z Ma, C Curtis - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer-related deaths, but the natural history, clonal
evolution and impact of treatment are poorly understood. We analyzed whole-exome …

The bone microenvironment invigorates metastatic seeds for further dissemination

W Zhang, IL Bado, J Hu, YW Wan, L Wu, H Wang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Metastasis has been considered as the terminal step of tumor progression. However, recent
genomic studies suggest that many metastases are initiated by further spread of other …

The landscape of targeted therapies in TNBC

E Vagia, D Mahalingam, M Cristofanilli - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) constitutes the most aggressive molecular subtype
among breast tumors. Despite progress on the underlying tumor biology, clinical outcomes …