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ReviewClinical and translational medicine2025

Spatial‒temporal heterogeneities of liver cancer and the discovery of the invasive zone.

Jiayan Yan, Zhifeng Jiang, Shiyu Zhang, Qichao Yu, Yijun Lu, Runze Miao, Zhaoyou Tang, Jia Fan, Liang Wu, Dan G Duda and 2 more

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Review in Clinical and translational medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Jiayan YanDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1751-7842
Zhifeng JiangDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Shiyu ZhangDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Qichao YuCollege of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yijun LuDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Runze MiaoDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Zhaoyou TangDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Jia FanDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Liang WuBGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6259-261X
Dan G DudaSteele Laboratories for Tumor Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Jian ZhouDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Xinrong YangDepartment of Liver Surgery & Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2716-9338

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2024M760563Original Discovery Program of the National Natural Science of China 82150004Outstanding Resident Clinical Postdoctoral Program of Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated with Fudan UniversityShanghai Municipal Health Commission 2022LJ005Shanghai Municipal Health Commission Collaborative Innovation Cluster Project 201940075Shanghai Municipal Health Commission Collaborative Innovation Cluster Project 2019CXJQ02Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major ProjectShanghai Sailing Program 24YF2705500Shanghai Science and Technology Commission 21140900300
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solid tumours are intricate and highly heterogeneous ecosystems, which grow in and invade normal organs. Their progression is mediated by cancer cells' interaction with different cell types, such as immune cells, stromal cells and endothelial cells, and with the extracellular matrix. Owing to its high incidence, aggressive growth and resistance to local and systemic treatments, liver cancer has particularly high mortality rates worldwide. In recent decades, spatial heterogeneity has garnered significant attention as an unfavourable biological characteristic of the tumour microenvironment, prompting extensive research into its role in liver tumour development. Advances in spatial omics have facilitated the detailed spatial analysis of cell types, states and cell‒cell interactions, allowing a thorough understanding of the spatial and temporal heterogeneities of tumour microenvironment and informing the development of novel therapeutic approaches. This review illustrates the latest discovery of the invasive zone, and systematically introduced specific macroscopic spatial heterogeneities, pathological spatial heterogeneities and tumour microenvironment heterogeneities of liver cancer.

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Liver NeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentHumansNeoplasm Invasivenessimmunosuppressioninvasive zoneliver cancerspatial heterogeneitytumour microenvironment

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PMID39924620
PMCPMC11807767

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