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Metabolic Targeting, Immunotherapy And Radiation In Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Where Do We Go From Here?, Annika Dhawan, Phillip M Pifer, Vlad C Sandulache, Heath D Skinner Jan 2022

Metabolic Targeting, Immunotherapy And Radiation In Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Where Do We Go From Here?, Annika Dhawan, Phillip M Pifer, Vlad C Sandulache, Heath D Skinner

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In the US, there are ~250,000 new lung cancer diagnoses and ~130,000 deaths per year, and worldwide there are an estimated 1.6 million deaths per year from this deadly disease. Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide, and it accounts for roughly a quarter of all cancer deaths in the US. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents 80-85% of these cases. Due to an enormous tobacco cessation effort, NSCLC rates in the US are decreasing, and the implementation of lung cancer screening guidelines and other programs have resulted in a higher percentage of patients presenting with …


Spliceosome-Targeted Therapies Trigger An Antiviral Immune Response In Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Elizabeth A Bowling, Jarey H Wang, Fade Gong, William Wu, Nicholas J Neill, Ik Sun Kim, Siddhartha Tyagi, Mayra Orellana, Sarah J Kurley, Rocio Dominguez-Vidaña, Hsiang-Ching Chung, Tiffany Y-T Hsu, Julien Dubrulle, Alexander B Saltzman, Heyuan Li, Jitendra K Meena, Gino M Canlas, Srinivas Chamakuri, Swarnima Singh, Lukas M Simon, Calla M Olson, Lacey E Dobrolecki, Michael T Lewis, Bing Zhang, Ido Golding, Jeffrey M Rosen, Damian W Young, Anna Malovannaya, Fabio Stossi, George Miles, Matthew J Ellis, Lihua Yu, Silvia Buonamici, Charles Y Lin, Kristen L Karlin, Xiang H-F Zhang, Thomas F Westbrook Jan 2021

Spliceosome-Targeted Therapies Trigger An Antiviral Immune Response In Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Elizabeth A Bowling, Jarey H Wang, Fade Gong, William Wu, Nicholas J Neill, Ik Sun Kim, Siddhartha Tyagi, Mayra Orellana, Sarah J Kurley, Rocio Dominguez-Vidaña, Hsiang-Ching Chung, Tiffany Y-T Hsu, Julien Dubrulle, Alexander B Saltzman, Heyuan Li, Jitendra K Meena, Gino M Canlas, Srinivas Chamakuri, Swarnima Singh, Lukas M Simon, Calla M Olson, Lacey E Dobrolecki, Michael T Lewis, Bing Zhang, Ido Golding, Jeffrey M Rosen, Damian W Young, Anna Malovannaya, Fabio Stossi, George Miles, Matthew J Ellis, Lihua Yu, Silvia Buonamici, Charles Y Lin, Kristen L Karlin, Xiang H-F Zhang, Thomas F Westbrook

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Many oncogenic insults deregulate RNA splicing, often leading to hypersensitivity of tumors to spliceosome-targeted therapies (STTs). However, the mechanisms by which STTs selectively kill cancers remain largely unknown. Herein, we discover that mis-spliced RNA itself is a molecular trigger for tumor killing through viral mimicry. In MYC-driven triple-negative breast cancer, STTs cause widespread cytoplasmic accumulation of mis-spliced mRNAs, many of which form double-stranded structures. Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-binding proteins recognize these endogenous dsRNAs, triggering antiviral signaling and extrinsic apoptosis. In immune-competent models of breast cancer, STTs cause tumor cell-intrinsic antiviral signaling, downstream adaptive immune signaling, and tumor cell death. Furthermore, RNA …


A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Two Novel Susceptible Regions For Squamous Cell Carcinoma Of The Head And Neck, Sanjay Shete, Hongliang Liu, Jian Wang, Robert Yu, Erich M Sturgis, Guojun Li, Kristina R Dahlstrom, Zhensheng Liu, Christopher I Amos, Qingyi Wei Jun 2020

A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Two Novel Susceptible Regions For Squamous Cell Carcinoma Of The Head And Neck, Sanjay Shete, Hongliang Liu, Jian Wang, Robert Yu, Erich M Sturgis, Guojun Li, Kristina R Dahlstrom, Zhensheng Liu, Christopher I Amos, Qingyi Wei

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To identify genetic variants for risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN), we conducted a two-phase genome-wide association study consisting of 7,858,089 SNPs in 2,171 cases and 4,493 controls of non-Hispanic white, of which 434,839 typed and 7,423,250 imputed SNPs as the discovery. SNPs with P <1×10–3 were further validated in the OncoArray study of oral and pharynx cancer (5,205 cases and 3,232 controls of European ancestry) from dbGaP. Meta-analysis of the discovery and replication studies identified one novel locus 6p22.1 (P = 2.96×10–9 for the leading rs259919) and two cancer susceptibility loci 6p21.32 (rs3135001, HLA-DQB1) and 6p21.33 (rs1265081, CCHCR1) associated with SCCHN risk. Further stratification by tumor site revealed four known cancer loci (5p15.33, 6p21.32, 6p21.33, and 2p23.1) associated with oral cavity cancer risk and oropharyngeal cancer risk, respectively. In addition, one novel locus 18q22.2 (P = 2.54×10–9 for the leading SNP rs142021700) was identified for hypo-pharynx and larynx cancer risk. For SNPs in those reported or novel loci, we also performed functional annotations by bioinformatics prediction and eQTL analysis. Collectively, our identification of four reported loci (2p23.1, 5p15.33, 6p21.32, and 6p21.33) and two novel loci (6p22.1 and 18q22.2) for SCCHN risk highlight the importance of HLA loci for oropharyngeal cancer risk, suggesting that immunologic mechanisms are implicated in the etiology of this subset of SCCHN.