Challenges to curing primary brain tumours

K Aldape, KM Brindle, L Chesler, R Chopra… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite decades of research, brain tumours remain among the deadliest of all forms of
cancer. The ability of these tumours to resist almost all conventional and novel treatments …

Artificial intelligence in cancer imaging: clinical challenges and applications

WL Bi, A Hosny, MB Schabath, ML Giger… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Judgement, as one of the core tenets of medicine, relies upon the integration of multilayered
data with nuanced decision making. Cancer offers a unique context for medical decisions …

Integrated proteogenomic characterization across major histological types of pediatric brain cancer

F Petralia, N Tignor, B Reva, M Koptyra, S Chowdhury… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We report a comprehensive proteogenomics analysis, including whole-genome sequencing,
RNA sequencing, and proteomics and phosphoproteomics profiling, of 218 tumors across 7 …

Clonal heterogeneity and tumor evolution: past, present, and the future

N McGranahan, C Swanton - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Intratumor heterogeneity, which fosters tumor evolution, is a key challenge in cancer
medicine. Here, we review data and technologies that have revealed intra-tumor …

The whole-genome landscape of medulloblastoma subtypes

PA Northcott, I Buchhalter, AS Morrissy, V Hovestadt… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Current therapies for medulloblastoma, a highly malignant childhood brain tumour, impose
debilitating effects on the developing child, and highlight the need for molecularly targeted …

The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

M Gerstung, C Jolly, I Leshchiner, SC Dentro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer develops through a process of somatic evolution,. Sequencing data from a single
biopsy represent a snapshot of this process that can reveal the timing of specific genomic …

Intertumoral heterogeneity within medulloblastoma subgroups

FMG Cavalli, M Remke, L Rampasek, J Peacock… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
While molecular subgrouping has revolutionized medulloblastoma classification, the extent
of heterogeneity within subgroups is unknown. Similarity network fusion (SNF) applied to …

The clinical utility of integrative genomics in childhood cancer extends beyond targetable mutations

A Villani, S Davidson, N Kanwar, WW Lo, Y Li… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
We conducted integrative somatic–germline analyses by deeply sequencing 864 cancer-
associated genes, complete genomes and transcriptomes for 300 mostly previously treated …

Medulloblastoma in the age of molecular subgroups: a review: JNSPG 75th Anniversary Invited Review Article

K Juraschka, MD Taylor - Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, 2019 - thejns.org
Medulloblastoma is the most common pediatric malignant brain tumor. Advances in
molecular profiling have uncovered significant heterogeneity among medulloblastomas and …

Medulloblastoma

PA Northcott, GW Robinson, CP Kratz… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma (MB) comprises a biologically heterogeneous group of embryonal tumours
of the cerebellum. Four subgroups of MB have been described (WNT, sonic hedgehog …