The potential of liquid biopsy in the management of cancer patients

A Markou, E Tzanikou, E Lianidou - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, liquid biopsy has gained much attention as a powerful tool in
personalized medicine, since it enables monitoring cancer evolution and follow-up of cancer …

Epigenetic regulation in melanoma: facts and hopes

EF Giunta, G Arrichiello, M Curvietto, A Pappalardo… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cutaneous melanoma is a lethal disease, even when diagnosed in advanced stages.
Although recent progress in biology and treatment has dramatically improved survival rates …

ESR1 Methylation: A Liquid Biopsy–Based Epigenetic Assay for the Follow-up of Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Receiving Endocrine Treatment

S Mastoraki, A Strati, E Tzanikou, M Chimonidou… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: Liquid biopsy provides real-time monitoring of tumor evolution and response to
therapy through analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and plasma-circulating tumor DNA …

Epigenetic profiling for the molecular classification of metastatic brain tumors

JIJ Orozco, TA Knijnenburg… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Optimal treatment of brain metastases is often hindered by limitations in diagnostic
capabilities. To meet this challenge, here we profile DNA methylomes of the three most …

[HTML][HTML] The CASC15 long intergenic noncoding RNA locus is involved in melanoma progression and phenotype switching

L Lessard, M Liu, DM Marzese, H Wang… - Journal of Investigative …, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years, considerable advances have been made in the characterization of protein-
coding alterations involved in the pathogenesis of melanoma. However, despite their …

Cancer systems biology of TCGA SKCM: efficient detection of genomic drivers in melanoma

J Guan, R Gupta, FV Filipp - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
We characterized the mutational landscape of human skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM)
using data obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. We analyzed next …

Growth exponents reflect evolutionary processes and treatment response in brain metastases

B Ocaña-Tienda, J Pérez-Beteta… - npj Systems Biology …, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor growth is the result of the interplay of complex biological processes in huge numbers
of individual cells living in changing environments. Effective simple mathematical laws have …

Alternate RASSF1 transcripts control SRC activity, E-cadherin contacts, and YAP-mediated invasion

N Vlahov, S Scrace, MS Soto, AM Grawenda, L Bradley… - Current biology, 2015 - cell.com
Tumor progression to invasive carcinoma is associated with activation of SRC family kinase
(SRC, YES, FYN) activity and loss of cellular cohesion. The hippo pathway-regulated …

[HTML][HTML] Intratumor heterogeneity in epigenetic patterns

Y Assenov, D Brocks, C Gerhäuser - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Analogous to life on earth, tumor cells evolve through space and time and adapt to different
micro-environmental conditions. As a result, tumors are composed of millions of genetically …

A systems approach to brain tumor treatment

JH Park, ALG de Lomana, DM Marzese, T Juarez… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pronounced differences across individuals (interpatient variability) and cell–
cell heterogeneity within a tumor (intratumoral heterogeneity) severely hinder effective brain …