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A clonal expression biomarker associates with lung cancer mortality
Biswas D, Birkbak N, Rosenthal R, Hiley C, Lim E, Papp K, Boeing S, Krzystanek M, Djureinovic D, La Fleur L, Greco M, Döme B, Fillinger J, Brunnström H, Wu Y, Moore D, Skrzypski M, Abbosh C, Litchfield K, Al Bakir M, Watkins T, Veeriah S, Wilson G, Jamal-Hanjani M, Moldvay J, Botling J, Chinnaiyan A, Micke P, Hackshaw A, Bartek J, Csabai I, Szallasi Z, Herrero J, McGranahan N, Swanton C. A clonal expression biomarker associates with lung cancer mortality. Nature Medicine 2019, 25: 1540-1548. PMID: 31591602, PMCID: PMC6984959, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0595-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerClinicopathological risk factorsCell lung cancerLung cancer mortalityPrognostic gene expression signaturesCancer cell proliferationGene expression signaturesCancer mortalityLung cancerRisk factorsExpression-based biomarkersCopy number gainsDisease subtypesClinical descriptorsTranscriptomic biomarkersIndividual tumorsCancer typesDiagnostic precisionMolecular biomarkersExpression signaturesCell proliferationDNA copy number gainsBiomarkersPatientsIntratumor heterogeneity
2019
Pulmonary venous circulating tumor cell dissemination before tumor resection and disease relapse
Chemi F, Rothwell D, McGranahan N, Gulati S, Abbosh C, Pearce S, Zhou C, Wilson G, Jamal-Hanjani M, Birkbak N, Pierce J, Kim C, Ferdous S, Burt D, Slane-Tan D, Gomes F, Moore D, Shah R, Al Bakir M, Hiley C, Veeriah S, Summers Y, Crosbie P, Ward S, Mesquita B, Dynowski M, Biswas D, Tugwood J, Blackhall F, Miller C, Hackshaw A, Brady G, Swanton C, Dive C. Pulmonary venous circulating tumor cell dissemination before tumor resection and disease relapse. Nature Medicine 2019, 25: 1534-1539. PMID: 31591595, PMCID: PMC6986897, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0593-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small-cell lung cancerEarly-stage non-small-cell lung cancerDisease relapseGenomic profilingHigh risk of recurrenceDetection of circulating tumor cellsRisk of recurrenceTumor cell disseminationTime of surgeryPredictors of relapsePotential clinical utilityCurative intentPrimary tumorSurgical resectionTumor resectionTumor stagePredicting relapseCell disseminationTumor cellsLung cancerMutational overlapRelapseMultivariate analysisSurgeryHigh risk