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  1. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and chemoresistance is a major obstacle in its treatment. Despite advances in therapy, the molecular mechanism underlying chemoresis...

    Authors: Zehua Bian, Fan Yang, Peiwen Xu, Ge Gao, Chunyu Yang, Yulin Cao, Surui Yao, Xue Wang, Yuan Yin, Bojian Fei and Zhaohui Huang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:23
  2. Eukaryotic cells engage in autophagy, an internal process of self-degradation through lysosomes. Autophagy can be classified as selective or non-selective depending on the way it chooses to degrade substrates....

    Authors: Jiaxi Liu, Yongya Wu, Sha Meng, Ping Xu, Shutong Li, Yong Li, Xiuying Hu, Liang Ouyang and Guan Wang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:22
  3. The ATM kinase constitutes a master regulatory hub of DNA damage and activates the p53 response pathway by phosphorylating the MDM2 protein, which develops an affinity for the p53 mRNA secondary structure. Disrup...

    Authors: Konstantinos Karakostis, Laurence Malbert-Colas, Aikaterini Thermou, Borek Vojtesek and Robin Fåhraeus
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:21
  4. The incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) exhibits significant variations across different ethnic groups and geographical regions, with Southeast Asia and North Africa being endemic areas. Of note, Epste...

    Authors: Huai Liu, Ling Tang, Yanxian Li, Wenji Xie, Ling Zhang, Hailin Tang, Tengfei Xiao, Hongmin Yang, Wangning Gu, Hui Wang and Pan Chen
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:20
  5. Heat shock proteins play crucial roles in various biochemical processes, encompassing protein folding and translocation. HSP90B1, a conserved member of the heat shock protein family, growing evidences have dem...

    Authors: Xiaoliang Huang, Weiming Zhang, Na Yang, Yujie Zhang, Tianyu Qin, Hanyi Ruan, Yan Zhang, Chao Tian, Xianwei Mo, Weizhong Tang, Jungang Liu and Beibei Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:19
  6. The production and release of tumor-derived small extracellular vesicles (TDSEVs) from cancerous cells play a pivotal role in the propagation of cancer, through genetic and biological communication with health...

    Authors: Chi Zhang, Chaoying Qin, Saikat Dewanjee, Hiranmoy Bhattacharya, Pratik Chakraborty, Niraj Kumar Jha, Moumita Gangopadhyay, Saurabh Kumar Jha and Qing Liu
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:18
  7. Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous group of tumors which lack estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2 expression. Targeted therapies have limited success in treating TNBC, thus ...

    Authors: Heba Alkhatib, Jason Conage-Pough, Sangita Roy Chowdhury, Denen Shian, Deema Zaid, Ariel M. Rubinstein, Amir Sonnenblick, Tamar Peretz-Yablonsky, Avital Granit, Einat Carmon, Ishwar N. Kohale, Judy C. Boughey, Matthew P. Goetz, Liewei Wang, Forest M. White and Nataly Kravchenko-Balasha
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:17
  8. Authors: Lei Xu, Xiao Ma, Xiuzhong Zhang, Chong Zhang, Yi Zhang, Shuai Gong, Nai Wu, Peng Zhang, Xinyu Feng, Jiaxuan Guo, Mengmeng Zhao, Zeqiang Ren and Pengbo Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:16

    The original article was published in Molecular Cancer 2023 22:195

  9. Mounting evidence suggests a strong association between tumor immunity and epigenetic regulation. The histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2 (KMT2) family plays a crucial role in the methylation of histone H3 at...

    Authors: Dong-Xu Wang, Jun-Yu Long, Rui-Zhe Li, Dao-Lin Zhang, Hui Liu, Jingru Liu, Jin-Cheng Tian, Han Li, Jie Liu, Hai-Tao Zhao and Tao Li
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:15
  10. The tumor microenvironment (TME) is an intricate system comprised of tumor cells and the surrounding cellular and non-cellular components, exerting a pivotal influence on the initiation and progression of tumo...

    Authors: Xinming Su, Chenhao Liang, Ruixiu Chen and Shiwei Duan
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:13
  11. Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) is an extremely rare and highly invasive tumor. Due to the lack of accurate models that reflect the biological characteristics of primary tumors, studying MPM remains ch...

    Authors: XiaoChang Fang, Lin Shu, TianLiang Chen, XiaoLe Zhao, LiuCui Yang, Tingting Dou, Lijie Yang, Xuanfei Li and Maohui Feng
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:12
  12. Dysregulation of R-loop homeostasis is closely related to various human diseases, including cancer. However, the causality of aberrant R-loops in tumor progression remains unclear. In this study, using single-...

    Authors: Shichao Zhang, Yang Liu, Yichi Sun, Qin Liu, Yan Gu, Ya Huang, Zhu Zeng, Fuzhou Tang and Yan Ouyang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:11
  13. This study sought to determine the value of patient-derived organoids (PDOs) from esophago-gastric adenocarcinoma (EGC) for response prediction to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (neoCTx).

    Authors: Tim Schmäche, Juliane Fohgrub, Anna Klimova, Karin Laaber, Stephan Drukewitz, Felix Merboth, Alexander Hennig, Therese Seidlitz, Friederike Herbst, Franziska Baenke, Anne-Marlen Ada, Thomas Groß, Carina Wenzel, Claudia R. Ball, Christian Praetorius, Thomas Schmidt…
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:10
  14. The CRISPR system is a revolutionary genome editing tool that has the potential to revolutionize the field of cancer research and therapy. The ability to precisely target and edit specific genetic mutations th...

    Authors: Mohammad Chehelgerdi, Matin Chehelgerdi, Milad Khorramian-Ghahfarokhi, Marjan Shafieizadeh, Esmaeil Mahmoudi, Fatemeh Eskandari, Mohsen Rashidi, Asghar Arshi and Abbas Mokhtari-Farsani
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:9

    The Correction to this article has been published in Molecular Cancer 2024 23:43

  15. Treatment for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has improved dramatically over the last decade, shifting from high-dose cytokine therapy in combination with surgical resection of tumors to targeted therapy, immunothe...

    Authors: Yufei Wang, Eloah Rabello Suarez, Gabriella Kastrunes, Najla Santos Pacheco de Campos, Rabia Abbas, Renata Schmieder Pivetta, Nithyassree Murugan, Ghanbar Mahmoodi Chalbatani, Vincent D’Andrea and Wayne A. Marasco
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:8
  16. In the early 1990’s a group of unrelated genes were identified from the sites of recurring translocations in B-cell lymphomas. Despite sharing the nomenclature ‘Bcl’, and an association with blood-borne cancer...

    Authors: Gillian Seaton, Hannah Smith, Andrea Brancale, Andrew D. Westwell and Richard Clarkson
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:7
  17. Adoptive cell transfer cancer immunotherapy holds promise for treating disseminated disease, yet generating sufficient numbers of lymphocytes with anti-cancer activity against diverse specificities remains a m...

    Authors: Odd L. Gammelgaard, Mikkel G. Terp, Alexei F. Kirkin, Simone Johansen, Sofie Traynor, Henriette Vever, Per Guldberg, Annette R. Kodahl, Morten F. Gjerstorff and Henrik J. Ditzel
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:6
  18. Cisplatin (CDDP) is the first-line chemotherapeutic strategy to treat patients with ovarian cancer (OC). The development of CDDP resistance remains an unsurmountable obstacle in OC treatment and frequently ind...

    Authors: Han Li, Run Lin, Yanna Zhang, Yanni Zhu, Shuting Huang, Jing Lan, Nian Lu, Chuanmiao Xie, Shanyang He and Weijing Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:5
  19. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is one of the most common malignant tumor worldwide. Metastasis is a leading case of cancer-related deaths of RCC. Circular RNAs (circRNAs), a class of noncoding RNAs, have emerged a...

    Authors: Zaosong Zheng, Xiangbo Zeng, Yuanchao Zhu, Mengxin Leng, Zhiyong Zhang, Qiong Wang, Xiaocen Liu, Siying Zeng, Yongyuan Xiao, Chenxi Hu, Shiyu Pang, Tong Wang, Bihong Xu, Peidan Peng, Fei Li and Wanlong Tan
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:4
  20. Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a rare and heterogeneous group of hematological malignancies. Compared to our knowledge of B-cell tumors, our understanding of T-cell leukemia and lymphoma remains less adv...

    Authors: Yunpeng Luan, Xiang Li, Yunqi Luan, Junyu Luo, Qinzuo Dong, Shili Ye, Yuejin Li, Yanmei Li, Lu Jia, Jun Yang and Dong-Hua Yang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:2
  21. This study investigates methylation patterns in circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA) for their potential role in colorectal cancer (CRC) detection and the monitoring of treatment response. Through methylation mi...

    Authors: Kazuya Yasui, Toshiaki Toshima, Ryo Inada, Yuzo Umeda, Shuya Yano, Hiroaki Tanioka, Akihiro Nyuya, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara, Takeshi Yamada, Yoshio Naomoto, Ajay Goel and Takeshi Nagasaka
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2024 23:1
  22. Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer therapy, yet the efficacy of these treatments is often limited by the heterogeneous and hypoxic tumor microenvironment (TME) of solid tumors. In the TME,...

    Authors: Philipp Knopf, Dimitri Stowbur, Sabrina H. L. Hoffmann, Natalie Hermann, Andreas Maurer, Valentina Bucher, Marilena Poxleitner, Bredi Tako, Dominik Sonanini, Balaji Krishnamachary, Sanhita Sinharay, Birgit Fehrenbacher, Irene Gonzalez-Menendez, Felix Reckmann, David Bomze, Lukas Flatz…
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:207
  23. Social behaviors such as altruism, where one self-sacrifices for collective benefits, critically influence an organism’s survival and responses to the environment. Such behaviors are widely exemplified in natu...

    Authors: Muhammad Sufyan Bin Masroni, Kee Wah Lee, Victor Kwan Min Lee, Siok Bian Ng, Chao Teng Law, Kok Siong Poon, Bernett Teck-Kwong Lee, Zhehao Liu, Yuen Peng Tan, Wee Ling Chng, Steven Tucker, Lynette Su-Mien Ngo, George Wai Cheong Yip, Min En Nga, Susan Swee Shan Hue, Thomas Choudary Putti…
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:206
  24. Targeted drugs are not quite effective for prolonging the survival of patients with gastric cancer due to off-target effects as well as tumor immune escape mechanisms. Circular RNAs widely exist in tumor regio...

    Authors: Zhenyan Miao, Jifei Li, Yu Wang, Mingqin Shi, Xiao Gu, Xuanqi Zhang, Fang Wei, Xinying Tang, Lufeng Zheng and Yingying Xing
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:205
  25. Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) is associated with high mortality and limited targeted therapies. USP13 is one of the most amplified genes in LUSC, yet its role in lung cancer is largely unknown. Here, we ...

    Authors: Juntae Kwon, Jinmin Zhang, Boram Mok, Samuel Allsup, Chul Kim, Jeffrey Toretsky and Cecil Han
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:204
  26. Tumor immunotherapy has transformed neoplastic disease management, yet low response rates and immune complications persist as major challenges. Extracellular vesicles including exosomes have emerged as therape...

    Authors: Ming Yue, Shengyun Hu, Haifeng Sun, Baojing Tuo, Bin Jia, Chen Chen, Wenkang Wang, Jinbo Liu, Yang Liu, Zhenqiang Sun and Junhong Hu
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:203
  27. Liver metastasis is the leading cause of death in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). Emerge evidence suggests that circular RNA (circRNA) is a pivotal player in cancer progression. However, its role in CRC...

    Authors: Kaixuan Zeng, Jianhong Peng, Yue Xing, Linjie Zhang, Peishan Zeng, Weihao Li, Weili Zhang, Zhizhong Pan, Chi Zhou and Junzhong Lin
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:202
  28. Autophagy is an essential cellular homeostasis pathway initiated by multiple stimuli ranging from nutrient deprivation to viral infection, playing a key role in human health and disease. At present, a growing ...

    Authors: Manuela Giansanti, Tobias Theinert, Sarah Katharina Boeing, Dorothee Haas, Paul-Gerhardt Schlegel, Paola Vacca, Francesca Nazio and Ignazio Caruana
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:201
  29. Commercial anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies (CART19) are efficacious against advanced B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL); however, most patients ultimately relapse. Several mechanisms contri...

    Authors: Yunlin Zhang, Ruchi P. Patel, Ki Hyun Kim, Hyungwoo Cho, Jae-Cheol Jo, Seong Hyun Jeong, Sung Yong Oh, Yoon Seok Choi, Sung Hyun Kim, Ji Hyun Lee, Mathew Angelos, Puneeth Guruprasad, Ivan Cohen, Ositadimma Ugwuanyi, Yong Gu Lee, Raymone Pajarillo…
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:200
  30. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most threatening tumors in the world, and chemotherapy remains dominant in the treatment of metastatic CRC (mCRC) patients. The purpose of this study was to develop a biom...

    Authors: Ya’nan Yang, Jieyun Zhang, Wen Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Yujia Zhai, Yan Li, Wenhua Li, Jinjia Chang, Xiaoying Zhao, Mingzhu Huang, Qirong Geng, Yue Yang, Zhe Gong, Nuoya Yu, Wei Shen, Qian Li…
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:199
  31. Tumor angiogenesis plays vital roles in the growth and metastasis of cancer. RNA methylation is one of the most common modifications and is widely observed in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Accumulating studies h...

    Authors: Mingyu Han, Haifeng Sun, Quanbo Zhou, Jinbo Liu, Junhong Hu, Weitang Yuan and Zhenqiang Sun
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:198
  32. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most prevalent forms of cancer worldwide, presents a significant global healthcare challenge. Cancer stem cells (CSCs), which can influence neighboring non-CSCs, are ...

    Authors: Tao Han, Lujun Chen, Kerui Li, Qilin Hu, Yue Zhang, Xuan You, Lei Han, Tingsong Chen and Kai Li
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:197
  33. Pharmacologic targeting of chromatin-associated protein complexes has shown significant responses in KMT2A-rearranged (KMT2A-r) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) but resistance frequently develops to single agents. Th...

    Authors: Nuria Tubío-Santamaría, Ashok Kumar Jayavelu, Tina M. Schnoeder, Theresa Eifert, Chen-Jen Hsu, Florian Perner, Qirui Zhang, Daniela V. Wenge, Fynn M. Hansen, Joanna M. Kirkpatrick, Nidhi Jyotsana, Steven W. Lane, Björn von Eyss, Aniruddha J. Deshpande, Michael W. M. Kühn, Juerg Schwaller…
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:196
  34. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play important roles in the occurrence and development of cancer and chemoresistance. DNA damage repair contributes to the proliferation of cancer cells and resistance to chemotherapy-...

    Authors: Lei Xu, Xiao Ma, Xiuzhong Zhang, Chong Zhang, Yi Zhang, Shuai Gong, Nai Wu, Peng Zhang, Xinyu Feng, Jiaxuan Guo, Mengmeng Zhao, Zeqiang Ren and Pengbo Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:195

    The Correction to this article has been published in Molecular Cancer 2024 23:16

  35. Current research has demonstrated that extracellular vesicles (EVs) and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are very closely related in the process of distant tumor metastasis. Primary tumors are shed and released ...

    Authors: Siyin Guo, Jing Huang, Genpeng Li, Wenjie Chen, Zhihui Li and Jianyong Lei
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:193
  36. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are a therapeutic strategy for various cancers although only a subset of patients respond to the therapy. Identifying patients more prone to respond to ICIs may increase the...

    Authors: Andrea Sacconi, Paola Muti, Claudio Pulito, Giulia Urbani, Matteo Allegretti, Raul Pellini, Nikolay Mehterov, Uri Ben-David, Sabrina Strano, Paolo Bossi and Giovanni Blandino
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:192
  37. Despite major improvements in immunotherapeutic strategies, the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment remains a major obstacle for the induction of efficient antitumor responses. In this study, we show that...

    Authors: Sandra Van Lint, Alexander Van Parys, Bram Van Den Eeckhout, Niels Vandamme, Stephane Plaisance, Annick Verhee, Dominiek Catteeuw, Elke Rogge, Jennifer De Geest, Nele Vanderroost, Jana Roels, Yvan Saeys, Gilles Uzé, Niko Kley, Anje Cauwels and Jan Tavernier
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:191
  38. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype that exhibits a high incidence of distant metastases and lacks targeted therapeutic options. Here we explored how the epigenome contributes to matr...

    Authors: Pere Llinàs-Arias, Miquel Ensenyat-Mendez, Sandra Íñiguez-Muñoz, Javier I. J. Orozco, Betsy Valdez, Matthew P. Salomon, Chikako Matsuba, Maria Solivellas-Pieras, Andrés F. Bedoya-López, Borja Sesé, Anja Mezger, Mattias Ormestad, Fernando Unzueta, Siri H. Strand, Alexander D. Boiko, E Shelley Hwang…
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:190
  39. The advent of iPSCs has brought about a significant transformation in stem cell research, opening up promising avenues for advancing cancer treatment. The formation of cancer is a multifaceted process influenc...

    Authors: Matin Chehelgerdi, Fereshteh Behdarvand Dehkordi, Mohammad Chehelgerdi, Hamidreza Kabiri, Hosein Salehian-Dehkordi, Mohammad Abdolvand, Sharareh Salmanizadeh, Mohsen Rashidi, Anoosha Niazmand, Saba Ahmadi, Sara Feizbakhshan, Saber Kabiri, Nasimeh Vatandoost and Tayebeh Ranjbarnejad
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:189
  40. Immunotherapies have revolutionized the treatment paradigms of various types of cancers. However, most of these immunomodulatory strategies focus on harnessing adaptive immunity, mainly by inhibiting immunosup...

    Authors: Ming Yi, Tianye Li, Mengke Niu, Qi Mei, Bin Zhao, Qian Chu, Zhijun Dai and Kongming Wu
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:187
  41. Currently, only limited knowledge is available regarding the phenotypic association between fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) alterations and the tumor microenvironment (TME) in bladder cancer (BLCA).

    Authors: Kazumasa Komura, Kensuke Hirosuna, Satoshi Tokushige, Takuya Tsujino, Kazuki Nishimura, Mitsuaki Ishida, Takuo Hayashi, Ayako Ura, Takaya Ohno, Shogo Yamazaki, Keita Nakamori, Shoko Kinoshita, Ryoichi Maenosono, Masahiko Ajiro, Yuki Yoshikawa, Tomoaki Takai…
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:185
  42. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a common malignant tumor of the urinary system. Angiogenesis is a main contributing factor for tumorigenesis. E74-like transcription factor 5 (ELF5) has been verified to participa...

    Authors: Tushuai Li, Longjiang Xu, Zhe Wei, Shaomei Zhang, Xingyu Liu, Yanzi Yang, Yue Gu and Jie Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2023 22:184

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