RAS-targeted therapies: is the undruggable drugged?

AR Moore, SC Rosenberg, F McCormick… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract RAS (KRAS, NRAS and HRAS) is the most frequently mutated gene family in
cancers, and, consequently, investigators have sought an effective RAS inhibitor for more …

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy with nivolumab and ipilimumab induces major pathological responses in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

JL Vos, JBW Elbers, O Krijgsman, JJH Traets… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Surgery for locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
results in 30‒50% five-year overall survival. In IMCISION (NCT03003637), a non …

The impact of site-specific digital histology signatures on deep learning model accuracy and bias

FM Howard, J Dolezal, S Kochanny, J Schulte… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is one of the largest biorepositories of digital
histology. Deep learning (DL) models have been trained on TCGA to predict numerous …

Tumor microenvironment and immune evasion in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

A Elmusrati, J Wang, CY Wang - International journal of oral science, 2021 - nature.com
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), an aggressive malignancy, is
characterized by high morbidity and low survival rates with limited therapeutic options …

Futibatinib, an Irreversible FGFR1–4 Inhibitor, in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors Harboring FGF/FGFR Aberrations: A Phase I Dose-Expansion Study

F Meric-Bernstam, R Bahleda, C Hierro, M Sanson… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Futibatinib, a highly selective, irreversible FGFR1–4 inhibitor, was evaluated in a large
multihistology phase I dose-expansion trial that enrolled 197 patients with advanced solid …

Role of PI3K/AKT pathway in cancer: the framework of malignant behavior

N Jiang, Q Dai, X Su, J Fu, X Feng, J Peng - Molecular biology reports, 2020 - Springer
Given that the PI3K/AKT pathway has manifested its compelling influence on multiple
cellular process, we further review the roles of hyperactivation of PI3K/AKT pathway in …

Pan-cancer image-based detection of clinically actionable genetic alterations

JN Kather, LR Heij, HI Grabsch, C Loeffler, A Echle… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular alterations in cancer can cause phenotypic changes in tumor cells and their
microenvironment. Routine histopathology tissue slides, which are ubiquitously available …

Clinical update on head and neck cancer: molecular biology and ongoing challenges

E Alsahafi, K Begg, I Amelio, N Raulf, P Lucarelli… - Cell death & …, 2019 - nature.com
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are an aggressive, genetically
complex and difficult to treat group of cancers. In lieu of truly effective targeted therapies …

The changing therapeutic landscape of head and neck cancer

JD Cramer, B Burtness, QT Le, RL Ferris - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
Head and neck cancers are a heterogeneous collection of malignancies of the upper
aerodigestive tract, salivary glands and thyroid. In this Review, we primarily focus on the …

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals regulators underlying immune cell diversity and immune subtypes associated with prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

YP Chen, JH Yin, WF Li, HJ Li, DP Chen, CJ Zhang… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an aggressive malignancy with extremely skewed
ethnic and geographic distributions. Increasing evidence indicates that targeting the tumor …