[HTML][HTML] Tumor hypoxia and radiotherapy: a major driver of resistance even for novel radiotherapy modalities

C Beckers, M Pruschy, I Vetrugno - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypoxia in solid tumors is an important predictor of poor clinical outcome to radiotherapy.
Both physicochemical and biological processes contribute to a reduced sensitivity of hypoxic …

DNA damage kinase signaling: checkpoint and repair at 30 years

MC Lanz, D Dibitetto, MB Smolka - The EMBO journal, 2019 - embopress.org
From bacteria to mammalian cells, damaged DNA is sensed and targeted by DNA repair
pathways. In eukaryotes, kinases play a central role in coordinating the DNA damage …

ATR/CHK1 inhibitors and cancer therapy

Z Qiu, NL Oleinick, J Zhang - Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2018 - Elsevier
The cell cycle checkpoint proteins ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated-and-Rad3-related kinase
(ATR) and its major downstream effector checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1) prevent the entry of …

Tumor hypoxia as a barrier in cancer therapy: why levels matter

T Hompland, CS Fjeldbo, H Lyng - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumors and associated with poor
outcome in most cancer types and treatment modalities, including radiotherapy …

Replication stress drives constitutive activation of the DNA damage response and radioresistance in glioblastoma stem-like cells

RD Carruthers, SU Ahmed, S Ramachandran… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a lethal primary brain tumor characterized by treatment resistance
and inevitable tumor recurrence, both of which are driven by a subpopulation of GBM cancer …

Hypoxia and the phenomenon of immune exclusion

V Pietrobon, FM Marincola - Journal of Translational Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Over the last few years, cancer immunotherapy experienced tremendous developments and
it is nowadays considered a promising strategy against many types of cancer. However, the …

Integrative proteogenomic characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma across etiologies and stages

CKY Ng, E Dazert, T Boldanova, M Coto-Llerena… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Proteogenomic analyses of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) have focused on early-stage,
HBV-associated HCCs. Here we present an integrated proteogenomic analysis of HCCs …

Modeling tumor cell adaptations to hypoxia in multicellular tumor spheroids

S Riffle, RS Hegde - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, 2017 - Springer
Under hypoxic conditions, tumor cells undergo a series of adaptations that promote
evolution of a more aggressive tumor phenotype including the activation of DNA damage …

Replication stress generates distinctive landscapes of DNA copy number alterations and chromosome scale losses

N Shaikh, A Mazzagatti, S De Angelis, SC Johnson… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background A major driver of cancer chromosomal instability is replication stress, the
slowing or stalling of DNA replication. How replication stress and genomic instability are …

The importance of hypoxia in radiotherapy for the immune response, metastatic potential and FLASH-RT

EJ Moon, K Petersson, MM Olcina - International journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Hypoxia (low oxygen) is a common feature of solid tumors that has been intensely
studied for more than six decades. Here we review the importance of hypoxia to …