Julie George

TL;DR: This first comprehensive study of somatic genome alterations in SCLC uncovers several key biological processes and identifies candidate therapeutic targets in this highly lethal form of cancer.

TL;DR: This study implicates histone modification as a major feature of SCLC, reveals potentially therapeutically tractable genomic alterations and provides a generalizable framework for the identification of biologically relevant genes in the context of high mutational background.

TL;DR: This Opinion, written by many leading experts in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) research, proposes a new model of SCLC subtypes defined by differential expression of four key transcription regulators that should help to focus and accelerate therapeutic research.

TL;DR: It is shown that Myc expression cooperates with Rb1 and Trp53 loss in the mouse lung to promote aggressive, highly metastatic tumors, that are initially sensitive to chemotherapy followed by relapse, similar to human SCLC.

TL;DR: Disruption of the interaction of CD47 with SIRPα using anti-CD47 antibodies induced macrophage-mediated phagocytosis of human SCLC patient cells in culture, and this approach could enable personalized immunotherapeutic regimens in patients with S CLC and other cancers.