Advances in HER2-targeted therapy: novel agents and opportunities beyond breast and gastric cancer

F Meric-Bernstam, AM Johnson, EEI Dumbrava… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
The introduction of HER2-targeted therapy for breast and gastric patients with ERBB2
(HER2) amplification/overexpression has led to dramatic improvements in oncologic …

Erdafitinib in patients with advanced solid tumours with FGFR alterations (RAGNAR): an international, single-arm, phase 2 study

S Pant, M Schuler, G Iyer, O Witt, T Doi, S Qin… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background FGFR alterations are reported across various malignancies and might act as
oncogenic drivers in multiple histologies. Erdafitinib is an oral, selective pan-FGFR tyrosine …

C-CAT: the national datacenter for cancer genomic medicine in Japan

T Kohno, M Kato, S Kohsaka, T Sudo, I Tamai… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Since June 2019, under the umbrella of the national health insurance system, Japan has
started cancer genomic medicine (CGM) with comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) tests …

[HTML][HTML] MCL-1 inhibitors, fast-lane development of a new class of anti-cancer agents

A Bolomsky, M Vogler, MC Köse, CA Heckman… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Cell death escape is one of the most prominent features of tumor cells and closely linked to
the dysregulation of members of the Bcl-2 family of proteins. Among those, the anti-apoptotic …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted therapy in melanoma and mechanisms of resistance

AM Czarnecka, E Bartnik, M Fiedorowicz… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The common mutation BRAFV600 in primary melanomas activates the mitogen-activated
protein kinase/extracellular-signal-regulated kinase (MAPK/ERK) pathway and the …

The landscape of actionable genomic alterations in cell-free circulating tumor DNA from 21,807 advanced cancer patients

OA Zill, KC Banks, SR Fairclough, SA Mortimer… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing provides a noninvasive method for
obtaining actionable genomic information to guide personalized cancer treatment, but the …

Massively parallel phenotyping of coding variants in cancer with Perturb-seq

O Ursu, JT Neal, E Shea, PI Thakore… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Genome sequencing studies have identified millions of somatic variants in cancer, but it
remains challenging to predict the phenotypic impact of most. Experimental approaches to …

Genetic predictors of response to systemic therapy in esophagogastric cancer

YY Janjigian, F Sanchez-Vega, P Jonsson, WK Chatila… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
The incidence of esophagogastric cancer is rapidly rising, but only a minority of patients
derive durable benefit from current therapies. Chemotherapy as well as anti-HER2 and PD-1 …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic variation associated with condensate dysregulation in disease

SF Banani, LK Afeyan, SW Hawken, JE Henninger… - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
A multitude of cellular processes involve biomolecular condensates, which has led to the
suggestion that diverse pathogenic mutations may dysregulate condensates. Although proof …

Targeting KRAS in cancer

A Singhal, BT Li, EM O'Reilly - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
RAS family variants—most of which involve KRAS—are the most commonly occurring
hotspot mutations in human cancers and are associated with a poor prognosis. For almost …