Liquid biopsy in prostate cancer management—Current challenges and future perspectives

F Crocetto, G Russo, E Di Zazzo, P Pisapia, BF Mirto… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Prostate cancer (PCa) is a widespread malignancy, representing the
second leading cause of cancer-related death in men. In the last years, liquid biopsy has …

Molecular genetics of prostate cancer: new prospects for old challenges

MM Shen, C Abate-Shen - Genes & development, 2010 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite much recent progress, prostate cancer continues to represent a major cause of
cancer-related mortality and morbidity in men. Since early studies on the role of the …

Punctuated evolution of prostate cancer genomes

SC Baca, D Prandi, MS Lawrence, JM Mosquera… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The analysis of exonic DNA from prostate cancers has identified recurrently mutated genes,
but the spectrum of genome-wide alterations has not been profiled extensively in this …

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 …

The mutational landscape of lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer

CS Grasso, YM Wu, DR Robinson, X Cao… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of the prostate cancer transcriptome and genome has identified
chromosomal rearrangements and copy number gains and losses, including ETS gene …

Integrative genomic profiling of human prostate cancer

BS Taylor, N Schultz, H Hieronymus, A Gopalan… - Cancer cell, 2010 - cell.com
Annotation of prostate cancer genomes provides a foundation for discoveries that can
impact disease understanding and treatment. Concordant assessment of DNA copy number …

An integrated network of androgen receptor, polycomb, and TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusions in prostate cancer progression

J Yu, J Yu, RS Mani, Q Cao, CJ Brenner, X Cao… - Cancer cell, 2010 - cell.com
Chromosomal rearrangements fusing the androgen-regulated gene TMPRSS2 to the
oncogenic ETS transcription factor ERG occur in approximately 50% of prostate cancers, but …

Tumor clone dynamics in lethal prostate cancer

S Carreira, A Romanel, J Goodall, E Grist… - Science translational …, 2014 - science.org
It is unclear whether a single clone metastasizes and remains dominant over the course of
lethal prostate cancer. We describe the clonal architectural heterogeneity at different stages …

The impact of translocations and gene fusions on cancer causation

F Mitelman, B Johansson, F Mertens - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2007 - nature.com
Chromosome aberrations, in particular translocations and their corresponding gene fusions,
have an important role in the initial steps of tumorigenesis; at present, 358 gene fusions …

Unique Clinicopathologic Features Characterize ALK-Rearranged Lung Adenocarcinoma in the Western Population

SJ Rodig, M Mino-Kenudson, S Dacic, BY Yeap… - Clinical cancer …, 2009 - AACR
Purpose: The anaplastic large cell kinase gene (ALK) is rearranged in∼ 5% of lung
adenocarcinomas within the Asian population. We evaluated the incidence and the …