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ReviewCancer cell2025

Squamous cell cancers of the aero-upper digestive tract: A unified perspective on biology, genetics, and therapy.

Brian S Henick, Alison M Taylor, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kwok-Kin Wong, J Alan Diehl, Anil K Rustgi

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Review in Cancer cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Brian S HenickHerbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Alison M TaylorHerbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Hiroshi NakagawaHerbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Kwok-Kin WongDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
J Alan DiehlDepartment of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Anil K RustgiHerbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: akr2164@cumc.columbia.edu.

Funding

Tumor Biology and Microenvironment ProgramP30CA013696 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI Anil K Rustgi · 1985 to 2026
$115.3M
Transformed Esophageal Epithelial Cells and the Tumor MicroenvironmentP01CA098101 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI RUSTGI, ANIL K · 2003 to 2023
$31.7M
Mechanisms underlying gastric intestinal metaplasia and carcinogenesisR01CA272903 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Joel Gabre, Maria Gonzalez-Pons · 2022 to 2026
$4.7M
Aldh2 and mitochondrial homeostasis in esophageal pathobiologyR01AA026297 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Hiroshi Nakagawa · 2018 to 2026
$2.9M
Functional Understanding of Chromosome Arm AneuploidiesR35GM147287 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Alison M. Taylor · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Elucidating the Consequences of Chromosome 3 Arm Aneuploidies in Squamous Cell CarcinomaR01CA273723 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Alison M. Taylor · 2023 to 2026
$1.5M
Multidisciplinary Training in Gastrointestinal CancersT32CA285274 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Julian Abrams, Anil K Rustgi · 2024 to 2026
$897k
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA098101NCI NIH HHS P30 CA013696NCI NIH HHS R01 CA272903NCI NIH HHS R01 CA273723NCI NIH HHS T32 CA285274NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA026297NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM147287
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Squamous cell cancers (SCCs) of the head and neck, esophagus, and lung, referred to as aero-upper digestive SCCs, are prevalent in the United States and worldwide. Their incidence and mortality are projected to increase at alarming rates, posing diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic challenges. These SCCs share certain epigenetic, genomic, and genetic alterations, immunologic properties, environmental exposures, as well as lifestyle and nutritional risk factors, which may underscore common complex gene-environmental interactions across them. This review focuses upon the frequent shared epigenetic, genomic, and genetic alterations, emerging preclinical model systems, and how this collective knowledge can be leveraged into perspectives on standard of care therapies and mechanisms of resistance, nominating new potential directions in translational therapeutics.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Squamous CellEsophageal NeoplasmsHead and Neck NeoplasmsLung NeoplasmsAnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticGene-Environment InteractionHumansesophagushead/necklungmodel systemssquamous cell cancertherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID39933897
PMCPMC11875029

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