DNA methylation profiling: an emerging paradigm for cancer diagnosis

A Papanicolau-Sengos, K Aldape - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Histomorphology has been a mainstay of cancer diagnosis in anatomic pathology for many
years. DNA methylation profiling is an additional emerging tool that will serve as an adjunct …

Beyond conventional immune-checkpoint inhibition—novel immunotherapies for renal cell carcinoma

DA Braun, Z Bakouny, L Hirsch, R Flippot… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
The management of advanced-stage renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has been transformed by
the development of immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Nonetheless, most patients do not …

[HTML][HTML] Fumarate induces vesicular release of mtDNA to drive innate immunity

V Zecchini, V Paupe, I Herranz-Montoya, J Janssen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Mutations in fumarate hydratase (FH) cause hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell
carcinoma. Loss of FH in the kidney elicits several oncogenic signalling cascades through …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor and immune reprogramming during immunotherapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma

K Bi, MX He, Z Bakouny, A Kanodia, S Napolitano… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) results in durable disease control in a subset of patients
with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), but mechanisms driving resistance are poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Histopathologic and proteogenomic heterogeneity reveals features of clear cell renal cell carcinoma aggressiveness

Y Li, TSM Lih, SM Dhanasekaran, R Mannan, L Chen… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCCs) represent∼ 75% of RCC cases and account for
most RCC-associated deaths. Inter-and intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) results in varying …

[HTML][HTML] Signatures of copy number alterations in human cancer

CD Steele, A Abbasi, SMA Islam, AL Bowes… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gains and losses of DNA are prevalent in cancer and emerge as a consequence of inter-
related processes of replication stress, mitotic errors, spindle multipolarity and breakage …

Benchmarking weakly-supervised deep learning pipelines for whole slide classification in computational pathology

NG Laleh, HS Muti, CML Loeffler, A Echle… - Medical image …, 2022 - Elsevier
Artificial intelligence (AI) can extract visual information from histopathological slides and
yield biological insight and clinical biomarkers. Whole slide images are cut into thousands of …

Cancer aneuploidies are shaped primarily by effects on tumour fitness

J Shih, S Sarmashghi, N Zhakula-Kostadinova… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Aneuploidies—whole-chromosome or whole-arm imbalances—are the most prevalent
alteration in cancer genomes,. However, it is still debated whether their prevalence is due to …

Single-cell analyses of renal cell cancers reveal insights into tumor microenvironment, cell of origin, and therapy response

Y Zhang, SP Narayanan, R Mannan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Diverse subtypes of renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) display a wide spectrum of
histomorphologies, proteogenomic alterations, immune cell infiltration patterns, and clinical …

Prognostic and predictive biomarkers for immunotherapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma

M Rosellini, A Marchetti, V Mollica, A Rizzo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The therapeutic algorithm of renal cell carcinoma has been revolutionized by the approval of
immunotherapy agents by regulatory agencies. However, objective and durable responses …