«Carefully defining the molecular landscape
of these tumor subtypes may guide us in pediatric precision medicine, to better treat children with brain tumors,» said Payal Jain, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Not exact matches
The study indicated that even a small period
of breastfeeding reduces the risk
of these stubborn
tumors, which are more common in younger women and generally have a poorer prognosis than other
subtypes of breast cancer.
The findings, which were demonstrated in several major
subtypes of melanoma
tumors (including BRAF and NRAS melanoma), could lead to drug development strategies that suppress the development
of drug resistance.
Then we can look for different treatment options, guided either by a mutation unique to that person's cancer or perhaps unique to that
subtype of tumor.
About 60 percent
of rhabdomyosarcoma patients have
tumors of the embryonal
subtype, and about 25 percent have the alveolar
subtype.
This method will facilitate the analysis
of patient
tumors and the selection
of the most appropriate therapy based on the individualized features
of each patient's cancer
subtype.
When researchers screened a library
of more than 200 drugs and related compounds for activity against embryonal
subtype tumor cells from three patients, the most promising results involved drugs that increased oxidative stress in
tumor cells.
«This indicates that therapies for high - grade gliomas should be personalized, that is, based on the
tumor subtype instead
of applying one treatment to all patients,» he says.
Little is known, however, about the metabolic pathways that drive the growth
of individual glioblastoma
subtypes — knowledge that is crucial for developing novel and effective targeted therapies that might improve treatment for these lethal
tumors.
Horvath and Tell's research is the first reported study to compare breast cancer
subtypes and gene expression patterns associated with STAT3 in the
tumors of human patients.
Navin's team developed a new sequencing approach called Nuc - Seq, revealing that different
subtypes of breast cancer displayed varied
tumor diversity.
«What remains unclear is how the exact, same mutation can give rise to different
subtypes of tumor.»
Andrechek's federally funded study looked at mice containing all
subtypes and compared the makeup
of the rodent
tumors and the way the genes acted, known as gene expression, to human
tumor data.
«Biology
of childhood brain
tumor subtypes offers clues to precision treatments: Researchers reveal differences among gene fusions in low - grade pediatric brain
tumors.»
Different
tumor subtypes can include glandular, which include the mammary glands, as well as squamous, which are very rare and involve epithelial cells that line the inside
of the breast.
The study also analyzed
tumors for expression
of PD - L1, a cancer immunotherapy target, and found that sarcomatoid histology, a
subtype of the mesothelioma, might be a good candidate for anti-PD-L1 therapy.
«In addition to having a higher prevalence
of triple - negative breast cancers than Caucasian women — something that has been documented in previous studies — we found that African American women with breast cancer had a significantly higher prevalence
of the TP53 driver mutation, basal
tumor subtype and greater genomic diversity within
tumors, all
of which suggest more aggressive
tumor biology,» says Tanya Keenan, MD,
of the MGH Cancer Center, lead author
of the study.
«In this study we've shown five distinct ways — by quantifying
tumor burden, identifying disease
subtype, cataloging mutations, predicting transformation and providing early warnings
of recurrence — that circulating
tumor DNA can yield potentially clinically useful information,» said Diehn.
The screening revealed coibamide A to be capable
of killing many types
of cancer cells, but Ishmael decided to focus subsequent studies on two types in particular — brain
tumors, or glioblastomas, and a breast cancer
subtype known as triple negative breast cancer.
About two - thirds
of people with the germinal center
subtype live for five years or more after diagnosis, while those with activated B - cell - like
tumors have a poorer prognosis with current treatment regimes.
«If our findings are confirmed by additional studies, they may open doors to the development
of targeted therapies against the
tumor subtypes more likely to affect African Americans and potentially help reduce racial disparities in breast cancer.»
The number
of mutations within each
tumor and the prevalence
of the basal - like and mesenchymal stem - like
subtypes — all
of which suggest more aggressive
tumors — was also greater in the
tumors of African American patients.
«Researchers inhibit
tumor growth in new
subtype of lung cancer: Insight into
tumor suppressing and
tumor promoting mechanisms offers potential for new treatments.»
«Areas
of glioblastoma
tumors correlate with separate
subtypes of glioma stem cells.»
A team
of UNC researchers and collaborating researchers from three other institutions — Washington University in St. Louis, the University
of Utah and the BC Cancer Agency — designed this test that categorizes breast
tumors into one
of four main
subtypes by looking at the expression
of 50 genes.
Swanton says he hopes the findings will eventually lead to the development
of a «rule book» on ccRCC
tumor evolution that will allow clinicians to quickly identify which
subtype a patient has and then provide an accurate prognosis.
Finally, 2 %
of tumors were
of the rare normal - like
subtype, which couldn't be comprehensively studied with so few samples.
The authors undertook a higher - resolution survey
of these associations within
tumor subtypes, finding known driver events, such as amplifications
of MYC, CCND1, ERBB2, and CCNE1 and deletions
of PTEN and MDM2, as well as putative but suggestive events involving MDM1, MDM4, CDK3, CDK4, PI4KB, NCOR1, and others.
The Cancer Genome Atlas study encompasses more than 500 primary
tumors representing the four intrinsic
subtypes of breast cancer: Luminal A, Luminal B, Her2 - enriched, and Basal - like.
Tumors can also be assigned to subgroups on the basis of gene expression: a 50 - gene assay called PAM50 is widely used to classify tumors as one of 4 - 5 «intrinsic» sub
Tumors can also be assigned to subgroups on the basis
of gene expression: a 50 - gene assay called PAM50 is widely used to classify
tumors as one of 4 - 5 «intrinsic» sub
tumors as one
of 4 - 5 «intrinsic»
subtypes.
Only three genes (TP53, PIK3CA, and GATA3) were mutated in 10 % or more
of all
tumors; grouping them by gene expression (intrinsic)
subtype uncovered a number
of subtype - specific events.
Although grouping
of patients by
subtype is an important first step toward developing personalized treatments, limited
tumor subtyping resources are currently available.
The copy number high
subtype was composed
of mostly serous
tumors, but included some endometrioid samples.
My laboratory studies the biology
of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive
subtype of brain
tumors.
A common misconception about the research field is that a
tumor stem cell is actually a
subtype of stem cell and that hence, cancer derives from stem cells.
Doctors are already using drugs, such as Herceptin, that specifically target malfunctioning genetic pathways in
tumors, but no such therapies are currently available for certain aggressive forms
of the disease, such as the triple negative
subtype.
The primary
tumor location was an independent prognostic marker in patients with RAS wild - type metastatic colorectal cancer after adjusting for age, gender, synchronous / metachronous disease, consensus molecular
subtype, and microsatellite instability and molecular status, according to the results
of an analysis (abstract 3503)
of data from CALGB / SWOG 80405 presented at the 2017 American Society
of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
The researchers found that non-Hispanic white women were more likely to have smaller
tumors, and more likely to have the less - aggressive HR + / HER2 -
subtype of breast cancer, compared with African - American women, who were more likely to have large
tumors, more likely to have the aggressive triple - negative breast cancer, and 40 to 70 percent more likely to be diagnosed at stage 4
of all
subtypes of breast cancer.
A comprehensive genomic analysis
of nearly 400 endometrial
tumors revealed 4 novel endometrial
tumor subtypes and also found similarities to other cancers.
For some types
of cancer, the existence
of certain
subtypes had not been known until researchers began to profile the genomes
of tumor cells.
There was also variation based on histology, with the highest rate
of local recurrence at about a year after surgery seen in malignant peripheral nerve sheath
tumors (MPNST), followed by myxofibrosarcoma; both those types saw persistently elevated rates compared to other
subtypes out beyond 5 years.
Breast Cancer Cell Line Classification and Its Relevance with Breast
Tumor Subtyping Xiaofeng Dai, Hongye Cheng, Zhonghu Bai, Jia Li Journal
of Cancer 2017; 8:3131 - 3141
The authors examined interactions between
tumor proliferation levels (Ki67), histological categories, intrinsic
subtype, and somatic alterations in these two categories
of tumors.
«This comes at a time when unprecedented development
of novel immune agents is intersecting with our deeper understanding
of colorectal molecular
subtypes and
of the complexities
of the
tumor microenvironment.»
Cell lineage tracing analysis helped researchers identify early endothelial cells as the cell
of origin for the
tumor subtype.
A network
of transcription factors may drive different
subtypes of aggressive bladder cancer, allowing researchers to turn one type
of tumor into another
Our experts leveraged enormous amounts
of tumor profiling data to identify the validated therapies that are most likely to be effective against this
subtype of NSCLC.
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of lung cancer
subtypes underscore the selection
of different oncogenic pathways during
tumor development.
Topics that will be explored include: • Cellular and developmental origins
of pediatric cancer • Key findings
of pan-cancer analysis efforts • Computational pipelines to analyze large - scale sequencing data • Opportunities for leveraging existing cancer genomics datasets • Strategies for integrative analysis
of germline and somatic variants • Correlation
of germline / somatic variation to clinical features such as
tumor subtype.
The data presented in this article suggests that
tumor subtype needs to be taken into account during treatment design as blocking angiogenesis and therefore increasing
tumor hypoxia may be beneficial in the treatment
of ER - α — negative breast cancer but could have catastrophic effects on ER - α — positive breast cancer.