Surviving at a distance: organ-specific metastasis

AC Obenauf, J Massagué - Trends in cancer, 2015 - cell.com
The clinical manifestation of metastasis in a vital organ is the final stage of cancer
progression and the main culprit of cancer-related mortality. Once established, metastasis is …

[HTML][HTML] Metastatic stem cells: sources, niches, and vital pathways

T Oskarsson, E Batlle, J Massagué - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
Metastasis is powered by disseminated cancer cells that re-create a full-fledged tumor in
unwelcoming tissues, away from the primary site. How cancer cells moving from a tumor into …

[HTML][HTML] Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution

D Yang, MG Jones, S Naranjo, WM Rideout, KHJ Min… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor evolution is driven by the progressive acquisition of genetic and epigenetic
alterations that enable uncontrolled growth and expansion to neighboring and distal tissues …

Alveolar regeneration through a Krt8+ transitional stem cell state that persists in human lung fibrosis

M Strunz, LM Simon, M Ansari, JJ Kathiriya… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The cell type specific sequences of transcriptional programs during lung regeneration have
remained elusive. Using time-series single cell RNA-seq of the bleomycin lung injury model …

Single-cell transcriptional changes associated with drug tolerance and response to combination therapies in cancer

AF Aissa, AB Islam, MM Ariss, CC Go, AE Rader… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors were found to be clinically effective for treatment of patients with
certain subsets of cancers carrying somatic mutations in receptor tyrosine kinases. However …

Human pancreatic tumor organoids reveal loss of stem cell niche factor dependence during disease progression

T Seino, S Kawasaki, M Shimokawa, H Tamagawa… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Despite recent efforts to dissect the inter-tumor heterogeneity of pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by determining prognosis-predictive gene expression signatures …

Epigenomic reprogramming during pancreatic cancer progression links anabolic glucose metabolism to distant metastasis

OG McDonald, X Li, T Saunders, R Tryggvadottir… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
During the progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), heterogeneous
subclonal populations emerge that drive primary tumor growth, regional spread, distant …

Tumor metastasis: moving new biological insights into the clinic

L Wan, K Pantel, Y Kang - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
As the culprit behind most cancer-related deaths, metastasis is the ultimate challenge in our
effort to fight cancer as a life-threatening disease. The explosive growth of metastasis …

Origins of metastatic traits

S Vanharanta, J Massagué - Cancer cell, 2013 - cell.com
How cancer cells acquire the competence to colonize distant organs remains a central
question in cancer biology. Tumors can release large numbers of cancer cells into the …

Distinctive properties of metastasis-initiating cells

T Celià-Terrassa, Y Kang - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Primary tumors are known to constantly shed a large number of cancer cells into systemic
dissemination, yet only a tiny fraction of these cells is capable of forming overt metastases …