Oncology

Definition

Oncology is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. It includes medical oncology (the use of chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and other drugs to treat cancer), radiation oncology (the use of radiation therapy to treat cancer), and surgical oncology (the use of surgery and other procedures to treat cancer).

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  • Reviews |

    Field cancerization underlies the development of many types of cancer. This Review examines the biological mechanisms that drive the evolution of cancerized fields and discusses how measuring field evolution could improve cancer risk prediction in patients with pre-malignant disease.

    • Kit Curtius
    • , Nicholas A. Wright
    •  & Trevor A. Graham
  • Protocols |

    This protocol describes a method for cataloging genome-wide mutations that accumulated during life or culture in single adult stem cells of different human tissues, by combining whole-genome sequencing with organoid-culture technologies.

    • Myrthe Jager
    • , Francis Blokzijl
    • , Valentina Sasselli
    • , Sander Boymans
    • , Roel Janssen
    • , Nicolle Besselink
    • , Hans Clevers
    • , Ruben van Boxtel
    •  & Edwin Cuppen
    Nature Protocols 13, 59–78
  • Research |

    The transcription factor Runx3 is identified as a central regulator of the development of tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells, providing insights into the signals that promote T cell residency in non-lymphoid tissues and tumours.

    • J. Justin Milner
    • , Clara Toma
    • , Bingfei Yu
    • , Kai Zhang
    • , Kyla Omilusik
    • , Anthony T. Phan
    • , Dapeng Wang
    • , Adam J. Getzler
    • , Toan Nguyen
    • , Shane Crotty
    • , Wei Wang
    • , Matthew E. Pipkin
    •  & Ananda W. Goldrath
  • Research |

    Disulfiram is metabolized into copper–diethyldithiocarbamate, which binds to NPL4 and induces its aggregation in cells, leading to blockade of the p97–NPL4–UFD1 pathway and induction of a complex cellular phenotype that results in cell death.

    • Zdenek Skrott
    • , Martin Mistrik
    • , Klaus Kaae Andersen
    • , Søren Friis
    • , Dusana Majera
    • , Jan Gursky
    • , Tomas Ozdian
    • , Jirina Bartkova
    • , Zsofia Turi
    • , Pavel Moudry
    • , Marianne Kraus
    • , Martina Michalova
    • , Jana Vaclavkova
    • , Petr Dzubak
    • , Ivo Vrobel
    • , Pavla Pouckova
    • , Jindrich Sedlacek
    • , Andrea Miklovicova
    • , Anne Kutt
    • , Jing Li
    • , Jana Mattova
    • , Christoph Driessen
    • , Q. Ping Dou
    • , Jørgen Olsen
    • , Marian Hajduch
    • , Boris Cvek
    • , Raymond J. Deshaies
    •  & Jiri Bartek

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