Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in
Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles
and JavaScript.
In this Comment article, Alicea and Rebecca advocate for increased basic research and translational studies of acral lentiginous melanoma using the patient communities that suffer the most in order to develop therapies that benefit patients across all ethnic and racial groups.
Vincze et al. have provided definitive evidence for the validity of Peto’s paradox by analysing cancer incidence in the largest study of mammal species to date.
Thandapani et al. examined the role for tRNA biogenesis in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL), and found that T-ALL cells are sensitive to valine tRNA levels, which could be exploited therapeutically by dietary valine restriction.
Somasundara, Moss, Feigman et al. show that γδ natural killer T-like (NKT) cells expand during the late stages of pregnancy in mice because of changes in mammary epithelial cell surface protein expression, which was associated with suppressed mammary oncogenesis induced by BRCA1 loss or MYC-overexpression.
In this Journal Club, Desiree Rivers discusses a study that developed and assessed the impact of SurvivorSHINE, a web-based lifestyle intervention for cancer survivors.
This Review outlines our current understanding of the evolution and heterogeneity of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), which has advanced owing to the study of preclinical models and patient samples, and presents an evolutionary model of PDAC progression based primarily on genomics studies of human PDAC.
This Review discusses carcinogens in smokeless tobacco products and cigarette smoke and biomarkers that may be able to identify those individuals at highest risk of tobacco-related cancers. It also discusses regulation of the levels of carcinogens and nicotine in these products as approaches to cancer prevention.
This Perspective outlines how the signalling pathways enabling metastasis are often shared with those supporting resistance to cancer therapies. Identifying nodes within these shared signalling networks that could be targeted might result in more effective therapies for the treatment of rapidly growing solid tumours.
Cancer cell-intrinsic PDL1 signals present novel drug discovery targets and also have potential as treatment response biomarkers. This Perspective discusses our understanding of cancer cell-intrinsic PDL1 signals, mechanisms for signal controls and immunopathological consequences including resistance to cytotoxic agents, targeted small molecules and immunotherapies.
