Cancer cell-intrinsic mechanisms driving acquired immune tolerance

E Ghorani, C Swanton, SA Quezada - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer, enabling tumors to survive contact with the host
immune system and evade the cycle of immune recognition and destruction. Here, we …

Whole-genome doubling in tissues and tumors

MA Vittoria, RJ Quinton, NJ Ganem - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
The overwhelming majority of proliferating somatic human cells are diploid, and this
genomic state is typically maintained across successive cell divisions. However, failures in …

Extrachromosomal DNA: Biogenesis and Functions in Cancer

EJ Curtis, JC Rose, PS Mischel… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In cancer, oncogenes can untether themselves from chromosomes onto circular,
extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) particles. ecDNA are common in many of the most …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the metastatic cascade through research autopsies

S Hessey, P Fessas, S Zaccaria, M Jamal-Hanjani… - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Metastasis is a complex process and the leading cause of cancer-related death globally.
Recent studies have demonstrated that genomic sequencing data from paired primary and …

Why do patients with cancer die?

A Boire, K Burke, TR Cox, T Guise… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer is a major cause of global mortality, both in affluent countries and increasingly in
developing nations. Many patients with cancer experience reduced life expectancy and …

Research autopsy programmes in oncology: shared experience from 14 centres across the world

T Geukens, M Maetens, JE Hooper… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While there is a great clinical need to understand the biology of metastatic cancer in order to
treat it more effectively, research is hampered by limited sample availability. Research …

Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy

BM Robertson, ME Fane, AT Weeraratna… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Metastatic melanoma is among the most enigmatic advanced cancers to clinically manage
despite immense progress in the way of available therapeutic options and historic …

Functional analysis of recurrent CDC20 promoter variants in human melanoma

PM Godoy, A Oyedeji, JL Mudd, VA Morikis… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Small nucleotide variants in non-coding regions of the genome can alter transcriptional
regulation, leading to changes in gene expression which can activate oncogenic gene …

Somatic structural variants drive distinct modes of oncogenesis in melanoma

JR Conway, R Gillani, J Crowdis, B Reardon… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
The diversity of structural variants (SVs) in melanoma and how they impact oncogenesis are
incompletely known. We performed harmonized analysis of SVs across melanoma histologic …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap: Why do patients with cancer die?

A Boire, K Burke, T Cox, T Guise… - Nature reviews …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer is a major cause of global mortality, both in affluent countries and increasingly in
developing nations. A large number of patients with cancer experience reduced life …