Search Results - "Diaz, Luis A."
-
1
Liquid Biopsies: Genotyping Circulating Tumor DNA
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (20-02-2014)“…Genotyping tumor tissue in search of somatic genetic alterations for actionable information has become routine practice in clinical oncology. Although these…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
2
Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer: rationale, challenges and potential
Published in Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology (01-06-2019)“…Following initial successes in melanoma treatment, immunotherapy has rapidly become established as a major treatment modality for multiple types of solid…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
3
Phase II Open-Label Study of Pembrolizumab in Treatment-Refractory, Microsatellite Instability-High/Mismatch Repair-Deficient Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: KEYNOTE-164
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (01-01-2020)“…KEYNOTE-164 (NCT02460198) evaluated the antitumor activity of pembrolizumab in previously treated, metastatic, microsatellite instability-high/mismatch…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
4
Eradication of metastatic mouse cancers resistant to immune checkpoint blockade by suppression of myeloid-derived cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-08-2014)“…Impressive responses have been observed in patients treated with checkpoint inhibitory anti–programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) or anti–cytotoxic…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
5
The Spectrum of Benefit from Checkpoint Blockade in Hypermutated Tumors
Published in The New England journal of medicine (25-03-2021)“…The FDA has approved immune checkpoint inhibitors for solid tumors of any histologic origin with more than 10 mutations per megabase of DNA. This study showed…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
6
Cancer Genome Landscapes
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (29-03-2013)“…Over the past decade, comprehensive sequencing efforts have revealed the genomic landscapes of common forms of human cancer. For most cancer types, this…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
7
Mismatch Repair Deficiency and Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade
Published in The oncologist (Dayton, Ohio) (01-10-2016)“…More than 1.6 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2016, resulting in more than 500,000 deaths. Although chemotherapy has been the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
8
The molecular evolution of acquired resistance to targeted EGFR blockade in colorectal cancers
Published in Nature (London) (28-06-2012)“…This work on colorectal cancer shows that secondary mutations in KRAS that confer resistance to panitumumab, an anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody, are already…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
9
Heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA mutations in normal and tumour cells
Published in Nature (London) (25-03-2010)“…The presence of hundreds of copies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in each human cell poses a challenge for the complete characterization of mtDNA genomes by…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
10
Circulating mutant DNA to assess tumor dynamics
Published in Nature medicine (01-09-2008)“…The measurement of circulating nucleic acids has transformed the management of chronic viral infections such as HIV. The development of analogous markers for…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
11
The genomic landscape of response to EGFR blockade in colorectal cancer
Published in Nature (London) (08-10-2015)“…The effect of somatic genetic changes in colorectal cancer on sensitivity to anti-EGFR antibody therapy is analysed. Genomics of a cancer during targeted…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
12
Whole-exome sequencing of neoplastic cysts of the pancreas reveals recurrent mutations in components of ubiquitin-dependent pathways
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-12-2011)“…More than 2% of adults harbor a pancreatic cyst, a subset of which progresses to invasive lesions with lethal consequences. To assess the genomic landscapes of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
13
Direct detection of early-stage cancers using circulating tumor DNA
Published in Science translational medicine (16-08-2017)“…Early detection and intervention are likely to be the most effective means for reducing morbidity and mortality of human cancer. However, development of…”
Get more information
Journal Article -
14
From neoadjuvant to organ-sparing immunotherapy for colorectal cancer
Published in Nature medicine (01-09-2024)“…In a new study, neoadjuvant immunotherapy led to major pathological responses in patients with locally advanced colon cancer harboring mismatch repair…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
15
DAXX/ATRX, MEN1, and mTOR Pathway Genes Are Frequently Altered in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (04-03-2011)“…Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) are a rare but clinically important form of pancreatic neoplasia. To explore the genetic basis of PanNETs, we…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
16
Health-related quality of life in patients with microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer treated with first-line pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy (KEYNOTE-177): an open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial
Published in The lancet oncology (01-05-2021)“…In the KEYNOTE-177 study, pembrolizumab monotherapy provided statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in progression-free survival…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
17
DNA Sensing in Mismatch Repair-Deficient Tumor Cells Is Essential for Anti-tumor Immunity
Published in Cancer cell (11-01-2021)“…Increased neoantigens in hypermutated cancers with DNA mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR) are proposed as the major contributor to the high objective response…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
18
Evolutionary dynamics of cancer in response to targeted combination therapy
Published in eLife (25-06-2013)“…In solid tumors, targeted treatments can lead to dramatic regressions, but responses are often short-lived because resistant cancer cells arise. The major…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
19
Evaluating Mismatch Repair Deficiency in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Challenges and Recommendations
Published in Clinical cancer research (15-03-2018)“…Immune checkpoint inhibition has been shown to generate profound and durable responses in mismatch repair deficient (MMR-D) solid tumors and has elicited…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
20
Glucose Deprivation Contributes to the Development of KRAS Pathway Mutations in Tumor Cells
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (18-09-2009)“…Tumor progression is driven by genetic mutations, but little is known about the environmental conditions that select for these mutations. Studying the…”
Get full text
Journal Article