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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2023

Early stage gastric adenocarcinoma: clinical and molecular landscapes.

Yuki Hirata, Ayesha Noorani, Shumei Song, Linghua Wang, Jaffer A Ajani

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. MicroRNA-597 Suppresses Gastric Cancer Invasion and Progression viaInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  13. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells modulation in the context of tumor microenvironment for gastric cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yuki HirataDepartment of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0283-6392
Ayesha NooraniCancer Ageing and Somatic Mutation Group, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Shumei SongDepartment of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8128-6287
Linghua WangDepartment of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Jaffer A AjaniDepartment of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. jajani@mdanderson.org.ORCID 0000-0001-9946-0629

Funding

Common Stem Cell of Origin for Junctional and Gastric AdenocarcinomaR01CA272906 · NCI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Jaffer A. Ajani, FRANK D. MCKEON · 2022 to 2026
$4.6M
Molecular dissecting and targeting YAP1 mediated cancer stemness and immune suppression in advanced gastric adenocarcinomaR01CA269685 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI SONG, SHUMEI · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA269685NCI NIH HHS R01 CA272906
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gastric adenocarcinoma, even when diagnosed at an early (localized) disease stage, poses a major health-care burden with cure rates that remain unsatisfactorily low, particularly in Western countries. This lack of progress reflects, among other aspects, the impracticality of early diagnosis, considerable variations in therapeutic approaches that is partly based on regional preferences, and the ingrained heterogeneity of gastric adenocarcinoma cells and their associated tumour microenvironment (TME). Clinical trials have long applied empirical interventions with the assumption that all early stage gastric adenocarcinomas are alike. Despite certain successes, the shortcomings of these approaches can potentially be overcome by targeting the specific molecular subsets of gastric adenocarcinomas identified by genomic and/or multi-omics analyses, including microsatellite instability-high, Epstein-Barr virus-induced, DNA damage repair-deficient, HER2-positive and PD-L1-high subtypes. Future approaches, including the availability of sophisticated vaccines, novel antibody technologies, agents targeting TME components (including fibroblasts, macrophages, cytokines or chemokines, and T cells) and novel immune checkpoint inhibitors, supported by improved tissue-based and blood-based diagnostic assays, seem promising. In this Review, we highlight current knowledge of the molecular and cellular biology of gastric adenocarcinomas, summarize the current approaches to clinical management of the disease, and consider the role of novel management and/or treatment strategies.

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AdenocarcinomaEpstein-Barr Virus InfectionsStomach NeoplasmsGenomicsHerpesvirus 4, HumanHumansTumor Microenvironment

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PMCPMC11869628

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