Genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity in prostate cancer

MC Haffner, W Zwart, MP Roudier, LD True… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
From a clinical, morphological and molecular perspective, prostate cancer is a
heterogeneous disease. Primary prostate cancers are often multifocal, having …

Histopathology of prostate cancer

PA Humphrey - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
This review focuses on histopathological aspects of carcinoma of the prostate. A tissue
diagnosis of adenocarcinoma is often essential for establishing a diagnosis of prostate …

Divergent clonal evolution of castration-resistant neuroendocrine prostate cancer

H Beltran, D Prandi, JM Mosquera, M Benelli, L Puca… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
An increasingly recognized resistance mechanism to androgen receptor (AR)-directed
therapy in prostate cancer involves epithelial plasticity, in which tumor cells demonstrate low …

Exome sequencing identifies recurrent SPOP, FOXA1 and MED12 mutations in prostate cancer

CE Barbieri, SC Baca, MS Lawrence, F Demichelis… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide and causes over
250,000 deaths each year. Overtreatment of indolent disease also results in significant …

Mechanistic rationale for inhibition of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase in ETS gene fusion-positive prostate cancer

JC Brenner, B Ateeq, Y Li, AK Yocum, Q Cao… - Cancer cell, 2011 - cell.com
Recurrent fusions of ETS genes are considered driving mutations in a diverse array of
cancers, including Ewing's sarcoma, acute myeloid leukemia, and prostate cancer. We …

The TMPRSS2:ERG Rearrangement, ERG Expression, and Prostate Cancer Outcomes: A Cohort Study and Meta-analysis

A Pettersson, RE Graff, SR Bauer, MJ Pitt, RT Lis… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2012 - AACR
Background: Whether the genomic rearrangement transmembrane protease, serine 2
(TMPRSS2): v-ets erythroblastosis virus E26 oncogene homolog (ERG) has prognostic …

Urine TMPRSS2:ERG Fusion Transcript Stratifies Prostate Cancer Risk in Men with Elevated Serum PSA

SA Tomlins, SMJ Aubin, J Siddiqui… - Science translational …, 2011 - science.org
More than 1,000,000 men undergo prostate biopsy each year in the United States, most for
“elevated” serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Given the lack of specificity and unclear …

ERG transcription factor as an immunohistochemical marker for vascular endothelial tumors and prostatic carcinoma

M Miettinen, ZF Wang, A Paetau, SH Tan… - The American journal …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
ERG, an ETS family transcription factor, is known to be expressed in endothelial cells, and
oncogenic ERG gene fusions occur in subsets of prostatic carcinoma, acute myeloid …

Common gene rearrangements in prostate cancer

MA Rubin, CA Maher, AM Chinnaiyan - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2011 - ascopubs.org
Prostate cancer is a common heterogeneous disease, and most patients diagnosed in the
post prostate-specific antigen (PSA) era present with clinically localized disease, the …

SPOP promotes ubiquitination and degradation of the ERG oncoprotein to suppress prostate cancer progression

W Gan, X Dai, A Lunardi, Z Li, H Inuzuka, P Liu… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
The ERG gene is fused to TMPRSS2 in approximately 50% of prostate cancers (PrCa),
resulting in its overexpression. However, whether this is the sole mechanism underlying …