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ReviewCancer cell international2025

Integration of multi-omics approaches in exploring intra-tumoral heterogeneity.

Mengmeng Dong, Liping Wang, Ning Hu, Yueli Rao, Zhen Wang, Yu Zhang

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Review in Cancer cell international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mengmeng Dong *Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
Liping Wang *Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
Ning HuDepartment of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
Yueli RaoDepartment of transfudioD Medicine, Joint Service Support Force 903 Hospital, Hangzhou, 310014, China. raoyueli@sohu.com.
Zhen WangCenter for Laboratory Medicine, Allergy Center, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital People's Hospital, Affiliated People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, 310014, China. wangzhen@hmc.edu.cn.
Yu ZhangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, 310014, China. 1013950738@qq.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intra-tumoral heterogeneity (ITH) is common in malignant tumors and arises from dynamic variations across genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolic, and microenvironmental factors. This complexity drives tumor evolution and treatment resistance, undermining the accuracy of clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. Despite recent advances in multi-omics technologies that enable comprehensive mapping of ITH across molecular layers, major challenges remain in clinical translation. This review outlines the principles and clinical applications of eight major omics modalities in the context of ITH: genomics, single-cell genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, radiomics, microbiome, and metabolomics. We highlight the unique contributions of each omics platform to tumor profiling and emphasize how their integration enhances biological interpretation, patient stratification, and biomarker discovery. Furthermore, we will focus more extensively on the limitations of applying these approaches to ITH analysis. Instead of providing an exhaustive catalog, this review highlights major controversies, technical hurdles, and conceptual gaps that impede the clinical translation of multi-omics-based ITH analysis, with the aim of addressing ITH-related clinical challenges.

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Biomarker discoveryCancer evolutionIntra-tumoral heterogeneityMulti-omicsTumor plasticity

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PMID40883767
PMCPMC12395700

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