Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …

Metastatic colonization by circulating tumour cells

J Massagué, AC Obenauf - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Metastasis is the main cause of death in people with cancer. To colonize distant organs,
circulating tumour cells must overcome many obstacles through mechanisms that we are …

p53, cancer and the immune response

J Blagih, MD Buck, KH Vousden - Journal of cell science, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
The importance of cancer-cell-autonomous functions of the tumour suppressor p53
(encoded by TP53) has been established in many studies, but it is now clear that the p53 …

Molecular and metabolic regulation of immunosuppression in metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

SK Gautam, SK Batra, M Jain - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Immunosuppression is a hallmark of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC),
contributing to early metastasis and poor patient survival. Compared to the localized tumors …

Emerging role of PTEN loss in evasion of the immune response to tumours

T Vidotto, CM Melo, E Castelli, M Koti… - British journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
Mutations in PTEN activate the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling network, leading
to many of the characteristic phenotypic changes of cancer. However, the primary effects of …

A MYC and RAS co-activation signature in localized prostate cancer drives bone metastasis and castration resistance

JM Arriaga, S Panja, M Alshalalfa, J Zhao, M Zou… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the intricacies of lethal prostate cancer poses specific challenges due to
difficulties in accurate modeling of metastasis in vivo. Here we show that NPK EYFP mice …

Stromal cues regulate the pancreatic cancer epigenome and metabolome

MH Sherman, RT Yu, TW Tseng… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A fibroinflammatory stromal reaction cooperates with oncogenic signaling to influence
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) initiation, progression, and therapeutic outcome …

Receptor-interacting protein kinase 2 (RIPK2) stabilizes c-Myc and is a therapeutic target in prostate cancer metastasis

Y Yan, B Zhou, C Qian, A Vasquez, M Kamra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite progress in prostate cancer (PC) therapeutics, distant metastasis remains a major
cause of morbidity and mortality from PC. Thus, there is growing recognition that preventing …

STAT3 in tumor fibroblasts promotes an immunosuppressive microenvironment in pancreatic cancer

JE Lefler, CB MarElia-Bennett, KA Thies… - Life science …, 2022 - life-science-alliance.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is associated with an incredibly dense stroma,
which contributes to its recalcitrance to therapy. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are …

The metabolic landscape of prostate cancer

F Giunchi, M Fiorentino, M Loda - European urology oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
Context Neoplastic cells are characterized by metabolic alterations that sustain tumor
growth. Interventions aimed at modifying metabolic rewiring of cancer cells are currently …