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Cancer
Unlocking a Genetically Driven
Disease
Joseph M Connors, MD
British Columbia Cancer Agency
University of British Columbia
Centre for Lymphoid Cancer
Vancouver, BC
Cancer
Noteworthy World Statistics 2012
• Incidence
> 14,100,000 will rise to 24 million by 2030
• Deaths
> 8,200,000
• Prevalence > 32,600,000
•
•
Leading cause of death in developed world
2nd leading cause of death in developing world
• In the developed countries
Approximately 1 in 2 will develop cancer
and
1 in 4 will die from cancer
• The developing countries are rapidly catching up
Canadian Cancer Statistics 2014
Change in Death Rates by Cause 1950 - 2005
x
64%
post
5%
74%
58%
Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma
Incidence by
Age
Zheng, Cancer, 1992;70:840
Absolute number of new cancer patients doubles every 15-20 y
Time ---------->>>>
Our bodies are composed of
many hundreds of different
types of cells all working
together in cooperation.
Tissues are composed of cells
talking to each other
Cancer
What is it Fundamentally?
 70,000,000,000,000

cells throughout the body
1,000,000,000,000 must be constantly replenished
= cell proliferation
 Obsolete
cells must be constantly removed
= apoptosis (programmed cell death)
 There
must be a master set of instructions
Basic Gene Structure and Control
Whole Gene
Regulators
Promoter
Genetic
Information
Duplication =
trisomy
Deletion
?
?
MFISH - complex karyotype
9
1
9
3
1
9
3
1
3
1
Cumulative genetic
errors
BCL2
overproduction
Cumulative genetic
errors
X
Cytotoxic T-cells attacking an infected cell
Split-reads across
the breakpoint
Aligned paired-end
sequences
Double-hit for the microenvironment
•Translocations or copy
number increase in PDL2
and PD-L1
• Translocations of CIITA (38%)
Steidl et al., Blood 118: 2659-69 (2011)
Cancer is a Dance Between Malignant Cells and
Immune Destroyer Cells
IFNγ
T-cell
receptor
IFNγR
MHC
PI3K
NFκB
Tumor cell
Other
PD-L1
Shp-2
Nivolumab
PD-L2
T cell
PD-1
PD-1
Brahmer et al N Engl J Med 2012;366:2455
Topalian et al N Engl J Med 2012;366:2443-54
Cancer: Basically a Genetic Disease
• Cancer cells are genetically abnormal and unstable
• Our ability to keep from developing cancer is
genetically controlled
• Best route forward to effective treatment = using
genetic instructions to reprogram cancer cells and
immune cells