Interrogating open issues in cancer precision medicine with patient-derived xenografts

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 254-268

  Byrne, Annette T ^a   Alférez, Denis G ^b   Amant, Frédéric ^d   Annibali, Daniela ^e   Arribas, Joaquín ^f   Biankin, Andrew V ^c,d   Bruna, Alejandra ^f   Budinská, Eva ^g   Caldas, Carlos ^h   Chang, David K ^f   Clarke, Robert B ^h   Clevers, Hans ^h   Coukos, George ⁱ   Dangles Marie, Virginie ^b   Gail Eckhardt, S ^c   Gonzalez Suarez, Eva ^d   Hermans, Els ^d   Hidalgo, Manuel ^d   Jarzabek, Monika A ^a   De Jong, Steven ^j   Jonkers, Jos ^k   Kemper, Kristel ^l,q   Lanfrancone, Luisa ^n,x   Mælandsmo, Gunhild Mari ^m,y   Marangoni, Elisabetta ⁿ   Marine, Jean Christophe ^o   Medico, Enzo ^o   Norum, Jens Henrik ^p   Palmer, Héctor G ^a   Peeper, Daniel S ^q   Pelicci, Pier Giuseppe ^r   Piris Gimenez, Alejandro ^s   Roman Roman, Sergio ^d   Rueda, Oscar M ^l   Seoane, Joan ^t   Serra, Violeta ^u   Soucek, Laura ^t   Vanhecke, Dominique ⁿ   Villanueva, Alberto ^v   Vinolo, Emilie ^w   Bertotti, Andrea ^e   Trusolino, Livio ^a   more..

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e VALL D HEBRON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^h Instituto Carlos III   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^k MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^l UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

ⁿ INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^o UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^p UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^q BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^r HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^t EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^u OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^v UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^w UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^x HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^y Seeding Science SAS   (France)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISTANT METASTASIS; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MELANOMA; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; CANCER STEM CELL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE MODEL; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SCREENING; IMMUNOTHERAPY; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

TUMOR MARKER;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PRECISION MEDICINE; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 85009959524     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2016.140     Document Type: Review

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