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Cancer research is progressing at a rapid pace. This collection highlights recent studies that increase our understanding of the complex biological processes underlying tumour development and progression. It also features novel approaches towards translating these advances into potential new anticancer drugs.


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Editorial

Editorial

Insights into the development of cancer - Free access

Barbara Marte


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Cancer collection

Article

Complex landscapes of somatic rearrangement in human breast cancer genomes

Philip J. Stephens et al.

Nature 462, 1005—1010 (24 December 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08645


Letter

Novel mutant-selective EGFR kinase inhibitors against EGFR T790M

Wenjun Zhou et al.

Nature 462, 1070—1074 (24 December 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08622


Article

Direct inhibition of the NOTCH transcription factor complex

Raymond E. Moellering et al.

Nature 462, 182—188 (12 November 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08543


Article

Cancer-associated IDH1 mutations produce 2-hydroxyglutarate

Lenny Dang et al.

Nature 462, 739—744 (10 December 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08617


Article

Pten in stromal fibroblasts suppresses mammary epithelial tumours

Anthony J. Trimboli et al.

Nature 461, 1084—1091 (22 October 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08486


Letter

Mutational evolution in a lobular breast tumour profiled at single nucleotide resolution

Sohrab P. Shah et al.

Nature 461, 809—813 (8 October 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08489


Letter

CCR7 signalling as an essential regulator of CNS infiltration in T-cell leukaemia

Silvia Buonamici et al.

Nature 459, 1000—1004 (18 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08020


Article

An inhibitor of NEDD8-activating enzyme as a new approach to treat cancer

Teresa A. Soucy et al.

Nature 458, 732—736 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07884


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Other cancer research

Perspective

International network of cancer genome project

The International Cancer Genome Consortium

Nature 464, 993—998 (15 April 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08987


Letter

Long non-coding RNA HOTAIR reprograms chromatin state to promote cancer metastasis

Rajnish A. Gupta et al.

Nature 464, 1071—1076 (15 April 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08975


Letter

Evidence of RNAi in humans from systemically administered siRNA via targeted nanoparticles

Mark E. Davis et al.

Nature 464, 1067—1070 (15 April 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08956


Letter

Migrastatin analogues target fascin to block tumour metastas

Lin Chen, Shengyu Yang, Jean Jakoncic, J. Jillian Zhang & Xin-Yun Huang

Nature 464, 1062—1066 (15 April 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08978


Letter

Chemoprevention of colorectal cancer by targeting APC-deficient cells for apoptosis

Ling Zhang et al.

Nature 464, 1058—1061 (15 April 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08871


Letter

Therapeutic antibody targeting of individual Notch receptors

Yan Wu et al.

Nature 464, 1052—1057 (15 April 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08878


Article

Genome remodelling in a basal-like breast cancer metastasis and xenograft

Li Ding et al.

Nature 464, 999—1005 (15 April 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08989


News and Views

Cancer: Genomics of metastasis

Joe Gray

Nature 464, 989—990 (15 April 2010) doi:10.1038/464989a


News and Views

Cancer: Drug-tolerant insurgents

Paul Workman & Jon Travers

Nature 464, 844—845 (8 April 2010) doi:10.1038/464844a


Letter

Mad2-induced chromosome instability leads to lung tumour relapse after oncogene withdrawal

Rocio Sotillo, Juan-Manuel Schvartzman, Nicholas D. Socci & Robert Benezra

Nature 464, 436—440 (18 March 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08803


Letter

RAF inhibitors prime wild-type RAF to activate the MAPK pathway and enhance growth

Georgia Hatzivassiliou et al.

Nature 464, 431—435 (18 March 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08833


Letter

RAF inhibitors transactivate RAF dimers and ERK signalling in cells with wild-type BRAF

Poulikos I. Poulikakos, Chao Zhang, Gideon Bollag, Kevan M. Shokat & Neal Rosen

Nature 464, 427—430 (18 March 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08902


Article

Skp2 targeting suppresses tumorigenesis by Arf-p53-independent cellular senescence

Hui-Kuan Lin et al.

Nature 464, 374—379 (18 March 2010) doi:10.1038/nature0881


News and Views

Cancer: A lower bar for senescence

Manuel Serrano

Nature 464, 363—364 (18 March 2010) doi:10.1038/464363a


News and Views

Drug discovery: Inhibitors that activate

Karen Cichowski & Pasi A. Jänne

Nature 464, 358—359 (18 March 2010) doi:10.1038/464358a


Article

The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

Rameen Beroukhim et al.

Nature 463, 899—905 (18 February 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08822


Article

Signatures of mutation and selection in the cancer genome

Graham R. Bignell et al.

Nature 463, 893—898 (18 February 2010) doi:10.1038/nature0876


Letter

B-cell-derived lymphotoxin promotes castration-resistant prostate cancer

Massimo Ammirante et al.

Nature 464, 302—305 (11 March 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08782


Letter

TGF-β-FOXO signalling maintains leukaemia-initiating cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia

Kazuhito Naka et al.

Nature 463, 676—680 (4 February 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08734


Letter

Interaction between Ras(V12) and scribbled clones induces tumour growth and invasion

Ming Wu, José Carlos Pastor-Pareja & Tian Xu

Nature 463, 545—548 (28 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08702


Article

Targeting Bcr-Abl by combining allosteric with ATP-binding-site inhibitors

Jianming Zhang et al.

Nature 463, 501—506 (28 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08675


Letter

HnRNP proteins controlled by c-Myc deregulate pyruvate kinase mRNA splicing in cancer

Charles J. David, Mo Chen, Marcela Assanah, Peter Canoll & James L. Manley

Nature 463, 364—368 (21 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08697


Letter

Systematic sequencing of renal carcinoma reveals inactivation of histone modifying genes

Gillian L. Dalgliesh et al.

Nature 463, 360—363 (21 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08672


Article

The transcriptional network for mesenchymal transformation of brain tumours

Maria Stella Carro et al.

Nature 463, 318—325 (21 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08712


Article

A comprehensive catalogue of somatic mutations from a human cancer genome

Erin D. Pleasance et al.

Nature 463, 191—196 (14 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08658


Article

A small-cell lung cancer genome with complex signatures of tobacco exposure

Erin D. Pleasance et al.

Nature 463, 184—190 (14 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08629


Letter

Deubiquitinase USP9X stabilizes MCL1 and promotes tumour cell survival

Martin Schwickart et al.

Nature 463, 103—107 (7 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08646


Letter

Chronic active B-cell-receptor signalling in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

R. Eric Davis et al.

Nature 463, 88—92 (7 January 2010) doi:10.1038/nature08638


Article

Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseases

Augustine Kong et al.

Nature 462, 868—874 (17 December 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08625


Letter

Long-range oncogenic activation of Igh-c-myc translocations by the Igh 3' regulatory region

Monica Gostissa et al.

Nature 462, 803—807 (10 December 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08633


News and Views

Chemical biology: A Notch above other inhibitors

Paramjit S. Arora & Aseem Z. Ansari

Nature 462, 171—173 (12 November 2009) doi:10.1038/462171a


Letter

Systematic RNA interference reveals that oncogenic KRAS-driven cancers require TBK1

David A. Barbie et al.

Nature 462, 108—112 (5 November 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08460


Letter

Requirement for NF-κB signalling in a mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma

Etienne Meylan et al.

Nature 462, 104—107 (5 November 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08462


News and Views

Cancer: A tumour gene's fatal flaws

Julian Downward

Nature 462, 44—45 (5 November 2009) doi:10.1038/462044a


Article

A luminal epithelial stem cell that is a cell of origin for prostate cancer

Xi Wang et al.

Nature 461, 495—500 (24 September 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08361


Letter

Response and resistance to MEK inhibition in leukaemias initiated by hyperactive Ras

Jennifer O. Lauchle et al.

Nature 461, 411—414 (17 September 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08279


Letter

Antioxidant and oncogene rescue of metabolic defects caused by loss of matrix attachment

Zachary T. Schafer et al.

Nature 461, 109—113 (3 September 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08268


News and Views

Cancer: The fat and the furious

Eyal Gottlieb

Nature 461, 44—45 (3 September 2009) doi:10.1038/461044a


Letter

Gain-of-function of mutated C-CBL tumour suppressor in myeloid neoplasms

Masashi Sanada et al.

Nature 460, 904—908 (13 August 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08240


News and Views

Cancer: More than kin and less than kind

Kevin Shannon & Mignon Loh

Nature 460, 804—807 (13 August 2009) doi:10.1038/460804a


Letter

Down's syndrome suppression of tumour growth and the role of the calcineurin inhibitor DSCR1

Kwan-Hyuck Baek et al.

Nature 459, 1126—1130 (25 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08062


Article

GOLPH3 modulates mTOR signalling and rapamycin sensitivity in cancer

Kenneth L. Scott et al.

Nature 459, 1085—1090 (25 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08109


Letter

Genes that mediate breast cancer metastasis to the brain

Paula D. Bos et al.

Nature 459, 1005—1009 (18 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08021


Letter

Copy number variation at 1q21.1 associated with neuroblastoma

Sharon J. Diskin et al.

Nature 459, 987—991 (18 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08035


Letter

Haematopoietic malignancies caused by dysregulation of a chromatin-binding PHD finger

Gang G. Wang et al.

Nature 459, 847—851 (11 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature08036


Letter

Mutations of multiple genes cause deregulation of NF-κB in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Mara Compagno et al.

Nature 459, 717—721 (4 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07968


Letter

Frequent inactivation of A20 in B-cell lymphomas

Motohiro Kato et al.

Nature 459, 712—716 (4 June 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07969


News and Views

Cancer: Melanoma troops massed

Paul H. Huang & Richard Marais

Nature 459, 336—337 (21 May 2009) doi:10.1038/459336a


Progress

Cytoplasmic functions of the tumour suppressor p53

Douglas R. Green & Guido Kroemer

Nature 458, 1127—1130 (30 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07986


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Article

Efficient tumour formation by single human melanoma cells

Elsa Quintana et al.

Nature 456, 593—598 (4 December 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07567


Letter

Epigenetic silencing of tumour suppressor gene p15 by its antisense RNA

Wenqiang Yu et al.

Nature 451, 202—206 (10 January 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06468


Letter

Metabolomic profiles delineate potential role for sarcosine in prostate cancer progression

Arun Sreekumar et al.

Nature 457, 910—914 (12 February 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07762


Letter

Regulation of ERBB2 by oestrogen receptor—PAX2 determines response to tamoxifen

Antoni Hurtado et al.

Nature 456, 663—666 (4 December 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07483


Letter

Carcinoma-produced factors activate myeloid cells through TLR2 to stimulate metastasis

Sunhwa Kim et al.

Nature 457, 102—106 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07623


Article

Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network

Nature 455, 1061—1068 (23 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07385


Article

DNA sequencing of a cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukaemia genome

Timothy J. Ley et al.

Nature 456, 66—72 (6 November 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07485


Article

Somatic mutations affect key pathways in lung adenocarcinoma

Li Ding et al.

Nature 455, 1069—1075 (23 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07423


News and Views

Fresh target for cancer therapy

Raymond J. Deshaies

Nature 458, 709—710 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/458709a


News and Views

When restriction is good

Anne Brunet

Nature 458, 713—714 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/458713a


Review

The cancer genome

Michael R. Stratton, Peter J. Campbell & P. Andrew Futreal

Nature 458, 719—724 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07943


Article

Tumours with PI3K activation are resistant to dietary restriction

Nada Y. Kalaany & David M. Sabatini

Nature 458, 725—731 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07782


Letter

c-Myc suppression of miR-23a/b enhances mitochondrial glutaminase expression and glutamine metabolism

Ping Gao et al.

Nature 458, 762—765 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07823


Letter

Hedgehog signalling is essential for maintenance of cancer stem cells in myeloid leukaemia

Chen Zhao et al.

Nature 458, 776—779 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07737


Letter

Association of reactive oxygen species levels and radioresistance in cancer stem cells

Maximilian Diehn et al.

Nature 458, 780—783 (9 April 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07733


Letter

Genetic architecture of mouse skin inflammation and tumour susceptibility

David A. Quigley et al.

Nature 458, 505—508 (26 March 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07683


Letter

Transcriptome sequencing to detect gene fusions in cancer

Christopher A. Maher et al.

Nature 458, 97—101 (5 March 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07638


Letter

Crypt stem cells as the cells-of-origin of intestinal cancer

Nick Barker et al.

Nature 457, 608—611 (29 January 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07602


Letter

Prominin 1 marks intestinal stem cells that are susceptible to neoplastic transformation

Liqin Zhu et al.

Nature 457, 603—607 (29 January 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07589


Letter

Frequent somatic mutations of GNAQ in uveal melanoma and blue naevi

Catherine D. Van Raamsdonk et al.

Nature 457, 599—602 (29 January 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07586


Letter

Frequent in-frame somatic deletions activate gp130 in inflammatory hepatocellular tumours

Sandra Rebouissou et al.

Nature 457, 200—204 (8 January 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07475


Article

Cell-cycle restriction limits DNA damage and maintains self-renewal of leukaemia stem cells

Andrea Viale et al.

Nature 457, 51—56 (1 January 2009) doi:10.1038/nature07618


Letter

Suppression of Myc oncogenic activity by ribosomal protein haploinsufficiency

Maria Barna et al.

Nature 456, 971—975 (18 December 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07449


Letter

Deletion of vascular endothelial growth factor in myeloid cells accelerates tumorigenesis

Christian Stockmann et al.

Nature 456, 814—818 (11 December 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07445


Letter

A role for VEGF as a negative regulator of pericyte function and vessel maturation

Joshua I. Greenberg et al.

Nature 456, 809—813 (11 December 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07424


Article

Glycogen synthase kinase 3 in MLL leukaemia maintenance and targeted therapy

Zhong Wang et al.

Nature 455, 1205—1209 (30 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07284


Letter

p53 and Pten control neural and glioma stem/progenitor cell renewal and differentiation

Hongwu Zheng et al.

Nature 455, 1129—1133 (23 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07443


Letter

Activating mutations in ALK provide a therapeutic target in neuroblastoma

Rani E. George et al.

Nature 455, 975—978 (16 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07397


Letter

Oncogenic mutations of ALK kinase in neuroblastoma

Yuyan Chen et al.

Nature 455, 971—974 (16 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07399


Letter

Somatic and germline activating mutations of the ALK kinase receptor in neuroblastoma

Isabelle Janoueix-Lerosey et al.

Nature 455, 967—970 (16 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07398


Article

Identification of ALK as a major familial neuroblastoma predisposition gene

Yaël P. Mossé et al.

Nature 455, 930—935 (16 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07261


Letter

The deubiquitinylation and localization of PTEN are regulated by a HAUSP–PML network

Min Sup Song et al.

Nature 455, 813—817 (9 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07290


Letter

Modelling Myc inhibition as a cancer therapy

Laura Soucek et al.

Nature 455, 679—683 (2 October 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07260


Letter

E2F1 represses β-catenin transcription and is antagonized by both pRB and CDK8

Erick J. Morris et al.

Nature 455, 552—556 (25 September 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07310


Letter

CDK8 is a colorectal cancer oncogene that regulates β-catenin activity

Ron Firestein et al.

Nature 455, 547—551 (25 September 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07179


Letter

A paracrine requirement for hedgehog signalling in cancer

Robert L. Yauch et al.

Nature 455, 406—410 (18 September 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07275


Letter

Essential roles of PI(3)K–p110β in cell growth, metabolism and tumorigenesis

Shidong Jia et al.

Nature 454, 776—779 (7 August 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07091


Letter

Blocking VEGFR-3 suppresses angiogenic sprouting and vascular network formation

Tuomas Tammela et al.

Nature 454, 656—660 (31 July 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07083


Letter

IRF4 addiction in multiple myeloma

Arthur L. Shaffer et al.

Nature 454, 226—231 (10 July 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07064


Letter

Synergistic response to oncogenic mutations defines gene class critical to cancer phenotype

Helene R. McMurray et al.

Nature 453, 1112—1116 (19 June 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06973


Article

PML targeting eradicates quiescent leukaemia-initiating cells

Keisuke Ito et al.

Nature 453, 1072—1078 (19 June 2008) doi:10.1038/nature07016


Letter

Multi-genetic events collaboratively contribute to Pten-null leukaemia stem-cell formation

Wei Guo et al.

Nature 453, 529—533 (22 May 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06933


Letter

Vascular normalization in Rgs5-deficient tumours promotes immune destruction

Juliana Hamzah et al.

Nature 453, 410—414 (15 May 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06868


Letter

BCR–ABL1 lymphoblastic leukaemia is characterized by the deletion of Ikaros

Charles G. Mullighan et al.

Nature 453, 110—114 (1 May 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06866


Letter

Cutaneous cancer stem cell maintenance is dependent on β-catenin signalling

Ilaria Malanchi et al.

Nature 452, 650—653 (3 April 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06835


Letter

Tumour maintenance is mediated by eNOS

Kian-Huat Lim, Brooke B. Ancrile, David F. Kashatus & Christopher M. Counter

Nature 452, 646—649 (3 April 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06778


Letter

A variant associated with nicotine dependence, lung cancer and peripheral arterial disease

Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson et al.

Nature 452, 638—642 (3 April 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06846


Letter

A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

Rayjean J. Hung et al.

Nature 452, 633—637 (3 April 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06885


Letter

The M2 splice isoform of pyruvate kinase is important for cancer metabolism and tumour growth

Heather R. Christofk et al.

Nature 452, 230—233 (13 March 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06734


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SATB1 reprogrammes gene expression to promote breast tumour growth and metastasis

Hye-Jung Han, Jose Russo, Yoshinori Kohwi & Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

Nature 452, 187—193 (13 March 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06781


Letter

Secondary mutations as a mechanism of cisplatin resistance in BRCA2-mutated cancers

Wataru Sakai et al.

Nature 451, 1116—1120 (28 February 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06633


Letter

Resistance to therapy caused by intragenic deletion in BRCA2

Stacey L. Edwards et al.

Nature 451, 1111—1115 (28 February 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06548


Letter

HIF-independent regulation of VEGF and angiogenesis by the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1α

Zoltan Arany et al.

Nature 451, 1008—1012 (21 February 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06613


Letter

Identification of cells initiating human melanomas

Tobias Schatton et al.

Nature 451, 345—349 (17 January 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06489


Letter

Identification of RPS14 as a 5q- syndrome gene by RNA interference screen

Benjamin L. Ebert et al.

Nature 451, 335—339 (17 January 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06494


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Endogenous human microRNAs that suppress breast cancer metastasis

Sohail F. Tavazoie et al.

Nature 451, 147—152 (10 January 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06487


Letter

NUMB controls p53 tumour suppressor activity

Ivan N. Colaluca et al.

Nature 451, 76—80 (3 January 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06412


Letter

Trisomy represses ApcMin-mediated tumours in mouse models of Down's syndrome

Thomas E. Sussan, Annan Yang, Fu Li, Michael C. Ostrowski & Roger H. Reeves

Nature 451, 73—75 (3 January 2008) doi:10.1038/nature06446


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