Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2026-04-01DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0083
Hadrien De Blander,Jean-Christophe Marine
{"title":"A Physical Framework to Control Cancer Cell Heterogeneity and Plasticity.","authors":"Hadrien De Blander,Jean-Christophe Marine","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0083","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a physics-based framework in which cancer cell state is defined by position and velocity in a continuous space of directly measurable physical variables-cell surface area (S) and volume (V)-and motion through S-V space as an interpretable proxy for plasticity. Therapy generates S-V vector fields that govern trajectories, enabling the design of drug combinations to steer heterogeneous cell populations toward nonviable states, offering a predictive and physically interpretable alternative to therapies directed against oncogenic mutations and/or predefined cell subpopulations.","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"46 1","pages":"637-643"},"PeriodicalIF":28.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147583946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2026-04-01DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0152
Heather Fairfield,Michaela R Reagan
{"title":"Fiber: A New Myeloma Prevention Approach with Abundant Positive Effects.","authors":"Heather Fairfield,Michaela R Reagan","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0152","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent study by Shah, Cogrossi, and colleagues, patients with overweight/obesity and pre-myeloma diseases (monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance or smoldering myeloma) were mailed 12 weeks of high-fiber meals, provided with nutritional counseling, and required to track their food intake and weight. The intervention was well tolerated and improved quality of life, metabolic health, gut microbiome composition, and immune system function while supporting stable or improved multiple myeloma disease trajectories. See related article by Shah et al., p. 697.","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"24 1","pages":"623-625"},"PeriodicalIF":28.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147583933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2026-04-01DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0411
Lillian L Siu
{"title":"Precision, Partnership, Purpose: Advancing Cancer Science to Save Lives Globally.","authors":"Lillian L Siu","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.cd-26-0411","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing knowledge in molecular biology, enabled by multiomic technologies, data science, and global collaboration, extends cancer research beyond advanced disease settings toward earlier detection, interception, and more effective therapies. Through partnership, workforce development, and a commitment to equity and trust in science, discovery can be catalyzed into meaningful patient impact.","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"1 1","pages":"629-632"},"PeriodicalIF":28.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147583939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2026-04-01DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-NW2026-0011
{"title":"Bringing AI to Cancer's Regulatory Genome.","authors":"","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-NW2026-0011","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-NW2026-0011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new AI model that predicts how noncoding DNA mutations alter gene regulation is helping cancer researchers identify which genetic changes drive tumor initiation and progression. Early studies show how AlphaGenome can unify multiple layers of genomic regulation into a single framework, accelerating the discovery of cancer-relevant mutations that previously required years of experimental work to decipher.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":" ","pages":"OF1"},"PeriodicalIF":33.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147347401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2026-04-01DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-NW2026-0012
{"title":"Neoantigen Vaccine Spurs Broad Immune Responses.","authors":"","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-NW2026-0012","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-NW2026-0012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A neoantigen vaccine against 209 frameshift peptides elicited strong, broad, and long-lasting immunity in people with Lynch syndrome in a phase Ib/II study, offering a novel approach for preventing the range of cancers these individuals are at an elevated risk of developing.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":" ","pages":"OF1"},"PeriodicalIF":33.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146164169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2026-04-01DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0853
Dennis J Yuan, John Zinno, Theo Botella, Dalia Dhingra, Shu Wang, Allegra G Hawkins, Ariel Swett, Jesus Sotelo, Ramya Raviram, Clayton Hughes, Catherine Potenski, Katharine D Godfrey, Kara M Ainsworth, Shuzhen Xu, Jianwen Que, Julian A Abrams, Akira Yokoyama, Nobuyuki Kakiuchi, Seishi Ogawa, Dan A Landau
{"title":"Genotype-to-Phenotype Mapping of Somatic Clonal Mosaicism via Single-Cell Co-Capture of DNA Mutations and mRNA Transcripts.","authors":"Dennis J Yuan, John Zinno, Theo Botella, Dalia Dhingra, Shu Wang, Allegra G Hawkins, Ariel Swett, Jesus Sotelo, Ramya Raviram, Clayton Hughes, Catherine Potenski, Katharine D Godfrey, Kara M Ainsworth, Shuzhen Xu, Jianwen Que, Julian A Abrams, Akira Yokoyama, Nobuyuki Kakiuchi, Seishi Ogawa, Dan A Landau","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0853","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0853","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Somatic mosaicism is pervasively observed in human aging, with clonal expansions of cells harboring mutations in recurrently mutated driver genes. Bulk sequencing of tissues captures mutation frequencies but cannot reconstruct clonal architectures nor delineate how driver mutations affect cellular phenotypes. We developed single-cell genotype-to-phenotype sequencing (scG2P) for high-throughput, highly multiplexed, joint capture of genotyping of mutation hotspots and mRNA markers. We applied scG2P to aged esophagus samples from six individuals and observed large numbers of clones with a single driver event, accompanied by rare clones with two driver mutations. NOTCH1 mutants dominate the clonal landscape and are linked to stunted epithelial differentiation, whereas TP53 mutants promote clonal expansion through both differentiation biases and increased cell cycling. Thus, joint single-cell highly multiplexed capture of somatic mutations and mRNA transcripts enables high-resolution reconstruction of clonal architecture and associated phenotypes in solid tissue somatic mosaicism.</p><p><strong>Significance: </strong>Joint single-cell capture of somatic mutations and mRNA transcripts reconstructs clonal architecture and associated phenotypes of the phenotypically normal esophagus, providing the first single-cell genotype-phenotype map of this clonally mosaic tissue to accelerate our understanding of human somatic evolution in solid tissues and provide a window into early cancerous states.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":" ","pages":"721-739"},"PeriodicalIF":33.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12874418/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145892093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2026-04-01DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-RW2026-021
{"title":"Strategy to Analyze Urine Tumor DNA Predicts Outcomes in Bladder Cancer.","authors":"","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-RW2026-021","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-RW2026-021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":" ","pages":"OF1"},"PeriodicalIF":33.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147347452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}