Rethinking ovarian cancer II: reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer

DD Bowtell, S Böhm, AA Ahmed, PJ Aspuria… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) accounts for 70–80% of ovarian cancer deaths,
and overall survival has not changed significantly for several decades. In this Opinion article …

Epithelial ovarian cancer: providing evidence of predisposition genes

S Shah, A Cheung, M Kutka, M Sheriff… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is one of the cancers most influenced by hereditary factors.
A fourth to a fifth of unselected EOC patients carry pathogenic variants (PVs) in a number of …

Genetic/familial high-risk assessment: breast, ovarian, and pancreatic, version 2.2021, NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology

MB Daly, T Pal, MP Berry, SS Buys, P Dickson… - Journal of the National …, 2021 - jnccn.org
The NCCN Guidelines for Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, and
Pancreatic focus primarily on assessment of pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants …

Review The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA): an immeasurable source of knowledge

K Tomczak, P Czerwińska… - Contemporary Oncology …, 2015 - termedia.pl
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a public funded project that aims to catalogue and
discover major cancer-causing genomic alterations to create a comprehensive “atlas” of …

Homologous recombination deficiency: exploiting the fundamental vulnerability of ovarian cancer

PA Konstantinopoulos, R Ceccaldi, GI Shapiro… - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
Approximately 50% of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOC) exhibit defective DNA repair via
homologous recombination (HR) due to genetic and epigenetic alterations of HR pathway …

Molecular correlates of cisplatin-based chemotherapy response in muscle invasive bladder cancer by integrated multi-omics analysis

A Taber, E Christensen, P Lamy, I Nordentoft… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Overtreatment with cisplatin-based chemotherapy is a major issue in the management of
muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), and currently none of the reported biomarkers for …

Mutational landscape and significance across 12 major cancer types

C Kandoth, MD McLellan, F Vandin, K Ye, B Niu, C Lu… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has used the latest sequencing and analysis
methods to identify somatic variants across thousands of tumours. Here we present data and …

Homologous-recombination-deficient tumours are dependent on Polθ-mediated repair

R Ceccaldi, JC Liu, R Amunugama, I Hajdu, B Primack… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Large-scale genomic studies have shown that half of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs)
have alterations in genes regulating homologous recombination (HR) repair. Loss of HR …

The causes and consequences of genetic heterogeneity in cancer evolution

RA Burrell, N McGranahan, J Bartek, C Swanton - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Recent studies have revealed extensive genetic diversity both between and within tumours.
This heterogeneity affects key cancer pathways, driving phenotypic variation, and poses a …

Biomarkers for homologous recombination deficiency in cancer

MM Hoppe, R Sundar, DSP Tan… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Defective DNA repair is a common hallmark of cancer. Homologous recombination is a DNA
repair pathway of clinical interest due to the sensitivity of homologous recombination …