Cell origins of high-grade serous ovarian cancer

J Kim, EY Park, O Kim, JM Schilder, DM Coffey… - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer, also known as high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC), is
the most common and deadliest type of ovarian cancer. HGSC appears to arise from the …

Rethinking ovarian cancer: recommendations for improving outcomes

S Vaughan, JI Coward, RC Bast Jr, A Berchuck… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
There have been major advances in our understanding of the cellular and molecular biology
of the human malignancies that are collectively referred to as ovarian cancer. At a recent …

The mammalian ovary from genesis to revelation

MA Edson, AK Nagaraja, MM Matzuk - Endocrine reviews, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Two major functions of the mammalian ovary are the production of germ cells (oocytes),
which allow continuation of the species, and the generation of bioactive molecules, primarily …

Niraparib activates interferon signaling and potentiates anti-PD-1 antibody efficacy in tumor models

Z Wang, K Sun, Y Xiao, B Feng, K Mikule, XY Ma… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
PARP inhibitors have been proven clinically efficacious in platinum-responsive ovarian
cancer regardless of BRCA1/2 status and in breast cancers with germline BRCA1/2 …

Ovarian cancer: strategies for overcoming resistance to chemotherapy

R Agarwal, SB Kaye - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2003 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer is responsible for 4% of deaths from cancer in women. Treatment comprises
a combination of surgery and chemotherapy, but patients typically experience disease …

Intrinsic tumour suppression

SW Lowe, E Cepero, G Evan - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Mutations that drive uncontrolled cell-cycle progression are requisite events in
tumorigenesis. But evolution has installed in the proliferative programmes of mammalian …

PI3K/Akt and apoptosis: size matters

TF Franke, CP Hornik, L Segev, GA Shostak… - Oncogene, 2003 - nature.com
Recent research has examined Akt and Akt-related serine–threonine kinases in signaling
cascades that regulate cell survival and are important in the pathogenesis of degenerative …

Ovarian cancer

KR Cho, IM Shih - Annual review of pathology: mechanisms of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Ovarian carcinomas are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms and are traditionally
subclassified based on type and degree of differentiation. Although current clinical …

High-grade serous ovarian cancer arises from fallopian tube in a mouse model

J Kim, DM Coffey, CJ Creighton, Z Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Although ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in women, little is known
about how the cancer initiates and metastasizes. In the last decade, new evidence has …

Tracing oncogene-driven remodelling of the intestinal stem cell niche

MK Yum, S Han, J Fink, SHS Wu, C Dabrowska… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Interactions between tumour cells and the surrounding microenvironment contribute to
tumour progression, metastasis and recurrence,–. Although mosaic analyses in Drosophila …