Browsing Cancer Therapeutics by author "Valeri, Nicola"
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Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Protein Loss and Benefit From Oxaliplatin-based Chemotherapy in Colorectal Cancer.
Sundar, R; Miranda, S; Rodrigues, DN; Chénard-Poirier, M; Dolling, D; et al. (CIG MEDIA GROUP, LP, 2018-12-01)BACKGROUND: Loss of ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM), a key protein regulating DNA repair signaling, has been suggested to increase sensitivity to DNA damaging agents. We conducted a study analyzing the loss of ATM ... -
Carbon dating cancer: defining the chronology of metastatic progression in colorectal cancer.
Lote, H; Spiteri, I; Ermini, L; Vatsiou, A; Roy, A; et al. (2017-06)Background Patients often ask oncologists how long a cancer has been present before causing symptoms or spreading to other organs. The evolutionary trajectory of cancers can be defined using phylogenetic approaches but ... -
Carbon dating cancer: defining the chronology of metastatic progression in colorectal cancer.
Lote, H; Spiteri, I; Ermini, L; Vatsiou, A; Roy, A; et al. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2017-02-23)BACKGROUND: Patients often ask oncologists how long a cancer has been present before causing symptoms or spreading to other organs. The evolutionary trajectory of cancers can be defined using phylogenetic approaches but ... -
Characterisation of the immune-related transcriptome in resected biliary tract cancers.
Ghidini, M; Cascione, L; Carotenuto, P; Lampis, A; Trevisani, F; et al. (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2017-11-01)UNLABELLED: Although biliary tract cancers (BTCs) are known to have an inflammatory component, a detailed characterisation of immune-related transcripts has never been performed. In these studies, nCounter PanCancer Immune ... -
Combining Molecularly Targeted Agents: Is More Always Better?
Sundar, R; Valeri, N; Harrington, KJ; Yap, TA (AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2017-03-01)The concurrent targeting of critical nodes along key signaling pathways with molecularly targeted agents is a rational antitumor strategy, which has had varying degrees of success. Combinatorial challenges include overcoming ... -
Effect of Pathologic Tumor Response and Nodal Status on Survival in the Medical Research Council Adjuvant Gastric Infusional Chemotherapy Trial.
Smyth, EC; Fassan, M; Cunningham, D; Allum, WH; Okines, AFC; et al. (AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2016-08-10)PURPOSE: The Medical Research Council Adjuvant Gastric Infusional Chemotherapy (MAGIC) trial established perioperative epirubicin, cisplatin, and fluorouracil chemotherapy as a standard of care for patients with resectable ... -
Efficacy and Cardiotoxic Safety Profile of Raltitrexed in Fluoropyrimidines-Pretreated or High-Risk Cardiac Patients With GI Malignancies: Large Single-Center Experience.
Khan, K; Rane, JK; Cunningham, D; Rao, S; Watkins, D; et al. (CIG MEDIA GROUP, LP, 2019-03-01)BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer patients may not be considered for therapy with fluoropyrimidines (FPs) because of previous cardiovascular (CV) toxicity or preexisting risk factors; such patients may benefit from ... -
Exploiting evolutionary steering to induce collateral drug sensitivity in cancer.
Acar, A; Nichol, D; Fernandez-Mateos, J; Cresswell, GD; Barozzi, I; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2020-04-21)Drug resistance mediated by clonal evolution is arguably the biggest problem in cancer therapy today. However, evolving resistance to one drug may come at a cost of decreased fecundity or increased sensitivity to another ... -
Functional imaging and circulating biomarkers of response to regorafenib in treatment-refractory metastatic colorectal cancer patients in a prospective phase II study.
Khan, K; Rata, M; Cunningham, D; Koh, D-M; Tunariu, N; et al. (BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018-08-01)OBJECTIVE: Regorafenib demonstrated efficacy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Lack of predictive biomarkers, potential toxicities and cost-effectiveness concerns highlight the unmet need for better ... -
KRAS and BRAF mutations in circulating tumour DNA from locally advanced rectal cancer.
Sclafani, F; Chau, I; Cunningham, D; Hahne, JC; Vlachogiannis, G; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2018-01-23)There are limited data on circulating, cell-free, tumour (ct)DNA analysis in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). Digital droplet (dd)PCR was used to investigate KRAS/BRAF mutations in ctDNA from baseline blood samples ... -
Longitudinal Liquid Biopsy and Mathematical Modeling of Clonal Evolution Forecast Time to Treatment Failure in the PROSPECT-C Phase II Colorectal Cancer Clinical Trial.
Khan, KH; Cunningham, D; Werner, B; Vlachogiannis, G; Spiteri, I; et al. (AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2018-08-30)Sequential profiling of plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) holds immense promise for early detection of patient progression. However, how to exploit the predictive power of cfDNA as a liquid biopsy in the clinic remains unclear. ... -
MicroRNA 193b-3p as a predictive biomarker of chronic kidney disease in patients undergoing radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma.
Trevisani, F; Ghidini, M; Larcher, A; Lampis, A; Lote, H; et al. (SPRINGERNATURE, 2016-11-01)BACKGROUND: A significant proportion of patients undergoing radical nephrectomy (RN) for clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) develop chronic kidney disease (CKD) within a few years following surgery. Chronic kidney disease ... -
MicroRNA-135b promotes cancer progression by acting as a downstream effector of oncogenic pathways in colon cancer.
Valeri, N; Braconi, C; Gasparini, P; Murgia, C; Lampis, A; et al. (CELL PRESS, 2014-04-14)MicroRNA deregulation is frequent in human colorectal cancers (CRCs), but little is known as to whether it represents a bystander event or actually drives tumor progression in vivo. We show that miR-135b overexpression is ... -
miR-224 Is Significantly Upregulated and Targets Caspase-3 and Caspase-7 During Colorectal Carcinogenesis.
Fassan, M; Cui, R; Gasparini, P; Mescoli, C; Guzzardo, V; et al. (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2019-02-01)miR-224 has recently emerged as a driver oncomiR in sporadic colorectal carcinogenesis, but its pathogenetic role is still controversial. A large phenotypical and molecularly characterized series of preinvasive and invasive ... -
miR-31-3p Expression and Benefit from Anti-EGFR Inhibitors in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients Enrolled in the Prospective Phase II PROSPECT-C Trial.
Anandappa, G; Lampis, A; Cunningham, D; Khan, KH; Kouvelakis, K; et al. (AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2019-07-01)PURPOSE: Anti-EGFR mAbs are effective in the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients. RAS status and tumor location (sidedness) are predictive markers of patients' response to anti-EGFR mAbs. Recently, ... -
MIR21 Drives Resistance to Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibition in Cholangiocarcinoma.
Lampis, A; Carotenuto, P; Vlachogiannis, G; Cascione, L; Hedayat, S; et al. (W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC, 2018-03-01)BACKGROUND & AIMS: Cholangiocarcinomas (CCA) are resistant to chemotherapy, so new therapeutic agents are needed. We performed a screen to identify small-molecule compounds that are active against CCAs. Levels of microRNA ... -
Modulation of Biliary Cancer Chemo-Resistance Through MicroRNA-Mediated Rewiring of the Expansion of CD133+ Cells.
Carotenuto, P; Hedayat, S; Fassan, M; Cardinale, V; Lampis, A; et al. (LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2020-09-10)BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Changes in single microRNA (miRNA) expression have been associated with chemo-resistance in biliary tract cancers (BTCs). However, a global assessment of the dynamic role of the microRNome has never ... -
Modulation of pancreatic cancer cell sensitivity to FOLFIRINOX through microRNA-mediated regulation of DNA damage.
Carotenuto, P; Amato, F; Lampis, A; Rae, C; Hedayat, S; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2021-11-18)FOLFIRINOX, a combination of chemotherapy drugs (Fluorouracil, Oxaliplatin, Irinotecan -FOI), provides the best clinical benefit in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients. In this study we explore the role of ... -
Patient-derived organoids model treatment response of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers.
Vlachogiannis, G; Hedayat, S; Vatsiou, A; Jamin, Y; Fernández-Mateos, J; et al. (AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, 2018-02-23)Patient-derived organoids (PDOs) have recently emerged as robust preclinical models; however, their potential to predict clinical outcomes in patients has remained unclear. We report on a living biobank of PDOs from ... -
Prognostic role of the LCS6 KRAS variant in locally advanced rectal cancer: results of the EXPERT-C trial.
Sclafani, F; Chau, I; Cunningham, D; Peckitt, C; Lampis, A; et al. (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2015-09-01)BACKGROUND: Lethal-7 (let-7) is a tumour suppressor miRNA which acts by down-regulating several oncogenes including KRAS. A single-nucleotide polymorphism (rs61764370, T > G base substitution) in the let-7 complementary ...