ESR1 mutation as an emerging clinical biomarker in metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer

JO Brett, LM Spring, A Bardia, SA Wander - Breast Cancer Research, 2021 - Springer
In metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, ESR1 mutations are a common
cause of acquired resistance to the backbone of therapy, estrogen deprivation by aromatase …

Context is everything: aneuploidy in cancer

U Ben-David, A Amon - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by multiple types of genetic alterations, which range in size from point
mutations to whole-chromosome gains and losses, known as aneuploidy. Chromosome …

The evolution of non-small cell lung cancer metastases in TRACERx

M Al Bakir, A Huebner, C Martínez-Ruiz, K Grigoriadis… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Metastatic disease is responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths. We report the
longitudinal evolutionary analysis of 126 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumours from …

The SWI/SNF complex in cancer—biology, biomarkers and therapy

P Mittal, CWM Roberts - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer genome-sequencing studies have revealed a remarkably high prevalence of
mutations in genes encoding subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodelling complexes …

Epigenetic plasticity and the hallmarks of cancer

WA Flavahan, E Gaskell, BE Bernstein - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Chromatin is the essential medium through which transcription factors,
signaling pathways, and other cues alter gene activity and cellular phenotypes. It assumes …

The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

M Gerstung, C Jolly, I Leshchiner, SC Dentro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer develops through a process of somatic evolution,. Sequencing data from a single
biopsy represent a snapshot of this process that can reveal the timing of specific genomic …

Clinical actionability of molecular targets in endometrial cancer

ME Urick, DW Bell - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Endometrial cancer accounts for~ 76,000 deaths among women each year
worldwide. Disease mortality and the increasing number of new diagnoses make …

[HTML][HTML] Brain malignancies: Glioblastoma and brain metastases

TT Lah, M Novak, B Breznik - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Brain, the major organ of the central nervous system controls and processes most of body
activities. Therefore, the most aggressive brain tumor–glioblastoma and metastases from …

Patient-derived xenografts undergo mouse-specific tumor evolution

U Ben-David, G Ha, YY Tseng, NF Greenwald, C Oh… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) have become a prominent cancer model system, as they
are presumed to faithfully represent the genomic features of primary tumors. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic evolution of breast cancer metastasis and relapse

LR Yates, S Knappskog, D Wedge, JHR Farmery… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Patterns of genomic evolution between primary and metastatic breast cancer have not been
studied in large numbers, despite patients with metastatic breast cancer having dismal …