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    Resistance to paclitaxel is associated with a variant of the gene BCL2 in multiple tumor types

    Paclitaxel, the most commonly used form of chemotherapy, is utilized in curative protocols in different types of cancer. The response to treatment differs among patients. Biological interpretation of a mechani...

    Rotem Ben-Hamo, Alona Zilberberg, Helit Cohen, Keren Bahar-Shany in npj Precision Oncology (2019)

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    Blood-based monitoring identifies acquired and targetable driver HER2 mutations in endocrine-resistant metastatic breast cancer

    Plasma genoty** identifies potentially actionable mutations at variable mutant allele frequencies, often admixed with multiple subclonal variants, highlighting the need for their clinical and functional vali...

    Arielle J. Medford, Taronish D. Dubash, Dejan Juric, Laura Spring in npj Precision Oncology (2019)

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    DNA-based copy number analysis confirms genomic evolution of PDX models

    Genomic evolution of patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) may lead to their gradual divergence away of their tumors of origin. We previously reported the genomic evolution of the copy number (CN) landscapes of PD...

    Anna C. H. Hoge, Michal Getz, Anat Zimmer, Minjeong Ko, Linoy Raz in npj Precision Oncology (2022)

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    Publisher Correction: DNA-based copy number analysis confirms genomic evolution of PDX models

    Anna C. H. Hoge, Michal Getz, Anat Zimmer, Minjeong Ko, Linoy Raz in npj Precision Oncology (2022)

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    Induction immune-checkpoint inhibitors for resectable oncogene-mutant NSCLC: A multicenter pooled analysis

    Despite limited efficacy of immunotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with driver mutations, whether neoadjuvant immunotherapy could be clinically valuable in those patients warrants furthe...

    Chao Zhang, Hua-Fei Chen, Shi Yan, Lin Wu, Li-Xu Yan in npj Precision Oncology (2022)

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    Downregulation of KEAP1 in melanoma promotes resistance to immune checkpoint blockade

    Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has demonstrated efficacy in patients with melanoma, but many exhibit poor responses. Using single cell RNA sequencing of melanoma patient-derived circulating tumor cells (CTCs...

    Douglas B. Fox, Richard Y. Ebright, **n Hong, Hunter C. Russell in npj Precision Oncology (2023)

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    Optimizing cancer immunotherapy response prediction by tumor aneuploidy score and fraction of copy number alterations

    Identifying patients that are likely to respond to cancer immunotherapy is an important, yet highly challenging clinical need. Using 3139 patients across 17 different cancer types, we comprehensively studied t...

    Tian-Gen Chang, Yingying Cao, Eldad D. Shulman, Uri Ben-David in npj Precision Oncology (2023)

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    ALK fusions in the pan-cancer setting: another tumor-agnostic target?

    Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) alterations (activating mutations, amplifications, and fusions/rearrangements) occur in ~3.3% of cancers. ALK fusions/rearrangements are discerned in >50% of inflammatory myofibro...

    Aditya Shreenivas, Filip Janku, Mohamed A. Gouda, Hui-Zi Chen in npj Precision Oncology (2023)

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    Genetic landscape of interval and screen detected breast cancer

    Interval breast cancers (IBCs) are cancers diagnosed between screening episodes. Understanding the biological differences between IBCs and screen-detected breast-cancers (SDBCs) has the potential to improve ma...

    Charlie Mills, Amit Sud, Andrew Everall, Daniel Chubb in npj Precision Oncology (2024)

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    A comprehensive analysis of minimally differentially methylated regions common to pediatric and adult solid tumors

    Cancer is the second most common cause of death in children aged 1–14 years in the United States, with 11,000 new cases and 1200 deaths annually. Pediatric cancers typically have lower mutational burden compar...

    David N. Buckley, Ben Yi Tew, Chris Gooden, Bodour Salhia in npj Precision Oncology (2024)