Pancreatic cancer: pathogenesis, screening, diagnosis, and treatment

LD Wood, MI Canto, EM Jaffee, DM Simeone - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a clinically challenging cancer, due to both its
late stage at diagnosis and its resistance to chemotherapy. However, recent advances in our …

Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

[HTML][HTML] Ordered and deterministic cancer genome evolution after p53 loss

T Baslan, JP Morris IV, Z Zhao, J Reyes, YJ Ho… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Although p53 inactivation promotes genomic instability and presents a route to malignancy
for more than half of all human cancers,, the patterns through which heterogenous TP53 …

Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing

ML Leibowitz, S Papathanasiou, PA Doerfler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome editing has therapeutic potential for treating genetic diseases and cancer.
However, the currently most practicable approaches rely on the generation of DNA double …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

Epithelial memory of inflammation limits tissue damage while promoting pancreatic tumorigenesis

E Del Poggetto, IL Ho, C Balestrieri, EY Yen, S Zhang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The association between tumors and inflammation is a long-established
clinical observation. Although many studies have demonstrated that the inflammatory …

Genetic and non-genetic clonal diversity in cancer evolution

JRM Black, N McGranahan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The observation and analysis of intra-tumour heterogeneity (ITH), particularly in genomic
studies, has advanced our understanding of the evolutionary forces that shape cancer …

Transcription phenotypes of pancreatic cancer are driven by genomic events during tumor evolution

M Chan-Seng-Yue, JC Kim, GW Wilson, K Ng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma presents as a spectrum of a highly aggressive disease in
patients. The basis of this disease heterogeneity has proved difficult to resolve due to poor …

Circulating tumor DNA and liquid biopsy in oncology

DW Cescon, SV Bratman, SM Chan, LL Siu - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Techniques for analyzing circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to detect, characterize and monitor
cancer have matured rapidly. An increasing body of clinical evidence is demonstrating the …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy

AS Bear, RH Vonderheide, MH O'Hara - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is among the most immune-resistant tumor types.
Its unique genomic landscape shaped by oncogenic drivers promotes immune suppression …