Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

H Jin, L Wang, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, elucidation of the genetic defects that underlie cancer has
resulted in a plethora of novel targeted cancer drugs. Although these agents can initially be …

Targeting the RAS/RAF/MAPK pathway for cancer therapy: from mechanism to clinical studies

ME Bahar, HJ Kim, DR Kim - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Metastatic dissemination of solid tumors, a leading cause of cancer-related mortality,
underscores the urgent need for enhanced insights into the molecular and cellular …

Synthetic lethality as an engine for cancer drug target discovery

A Huang, LA Garraway, A Ashworth… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
The first wave of genetically targeted therapies for cancer focused on drugging gene
products that are recurrently mutated in specific cancer types. However, mutational analysis …

Combined BRAF, EGFR, and MEK Inhibition in Patients with BRAFV600E-Mutant Colorectal Cancer

RB Corcoran, T André, CE Atreya, JHM Schellens… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Although BRAF inhibitor monotherapy yields response rates> 50% in BRAF V600-mutant
melanoma, only approximately 5% of patients with BRAF V600E colorectal cancer respond …

Circular RNA ciRS-7—a promising prognostic biomarker and a potential therapeutic target in colorectal cancer

W Weng, Q Wei, S Toden, K Yoshida, T Nagasaka… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide. Recently, a
novel circular RNA, ciRS-7, was proposed to be a potential miR-7 sponge. As miR-7, a …

Mechanisms of acquired BRAF inhibitor resistance in melanoma: a systematic review

I Proietti, N Skroza, N Bernardini, E Tolino, V Balduzzi… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Patients with advanced melanoma are often treated with v-raf murine
sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) inhibitors. Although these agents prolong life …

Inactivating NF1 Mutations Are Enriched in Advanced Breast Cancer and Contribute to Endocrine Therapy Resistance

A Pearson, P Proszek, J Pascual, C Fribbens… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: Advanced breast cancer (ABC) has not been subjected to the same degree of
molecular scrutiny as early primary cancer. Breast cancer evolves with time and under the …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer and their clinical implications

K Thanki, ME Nicholls, A Gajjar… - International …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The colorectal cancer (CRC) Subtyping Consortium has unified six independent molecular
classification systems, based on gene expression data, into a single consensus system with …

Pediatric low-grade gliomas: implications of the biologic era

RJ Packer, S Pfister, E Bouffet, R Avery… - Neuro …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
For the past decade, it has been recognized that pediatric low-grade gliomas (LGGs) and
glial-neuronal tumors carry distinct molecular alterations with resultant aberrant intracellular …

ERK inhibitor LY3214996 targets ERK pathway–driven cancers: A therapeutic approach toward precision medicine

SV Bhagwat, WT McMillen, S Cai, B Zhao… - Molecular cancer …, 2020 - AACR
The ERK pathway is critical in oncogenesis; aberrations in components of this pathway are
common in approximately 30% of human cancers. ERK1/2 (ERK) regulates cell proliferation …