[HTML][HTML] Small molecules in targeted cancer therapy: advances, challenges, and future perspectives

L Zhong, Y Li, L Xiong, W Wang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Due to the advantages in efficacy and safety compared with traditional chemotherapy drugs,
targeted therapeutic drugs have become mainstream cancer treatments. Since the first …

Globally approved EGFR inhibitors: Insights into their syntheses, target kinases, biological activities, receptor interactions, and metabolism

MAS Abourehab, AM Alqahtani, BGM Youssif… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Targeting the EGFR with small-molecule inhibitors is a confirmed valid strategy in cancer
therapy. Since the FDA approval of the first EGFR-TKI, erlotinib, great efforts have been …

Non-small cell lung cancer targeted therapy: drugs and mechanisms of drug resistance

J Wu, Z Lin - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The advent of precision medicine has brought light to the treatment of non-small cell lung
cancer (NSCLC), expanding the options for patients with advanced NSCLC by targeting …

Nitrogen containing heterocycles as anticancer agents: a medicinal chemistry perspective

A Kumar, AK Singh, H Singh, V Vijayan, D Kumar… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the major healthcare challenges across the globe. Several anticancer
drugs are available on the market but they either lack specificity or have poor safety, severe …

Small molecule EGFR inhibitors as anti-cancer agents: discovery, mechanisms of action, and opportunities

T Zubair, D Bandyopadhyay - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFRs) are a class of receptor tyrosine kinase that are
also called ErbB1 and HER1. EGFR tyrosine kinase activity inhibition is considered a …

PROTAC therapy as a new targeted therapy for lung cancer

JW Li, G Zheng, FJ Kaye, L Wu - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Despite recent advances in molecular therapeutics, lung cancer is still a leading cause of
cancer deaths. Currently, limited targeted therapy options and acquired drug resistance …

EGFR, the Lazarus target for precision oncology in glioblastoma

B Lin, J Ziebro, E Smithberger, KR Skinner… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The Lazarus effect is a rare condition that happens when someone seemingly dead shows
signs of life. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) represents a target in the fatal …

Potentiating therapeutic effects of epidermal growth factor receptor inhibition in triple-negative breast cancer

KS You, YW Yi, J Cho, JS Park, YS Seong - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subset of breast cancer with aggressive
characteristics and few therapeutic options. The lack of an appropriate therapeutic target is a …

Immunomodulatory functions of the circ_001678/miRNA-326/ZEB1 axis in non-small cell lung cancer via the regulation of PD-1/PD-L1 pathway

Q Tian, T Wu, X Zhang, K Xu, X Yin… - Human Molecular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
High-throughput circular RNA (circRNA) sequencing identified circRNA_001678
(circ_001678) as an upregulated circRNA in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissues …

Novel targets, novel treatments: the changing landscape of non-small cell lung cancer

D de Jong, JP Das, H Ma, J Pailey Valiplackal… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Non-small cell lung cancer treatment has undergone a revolution in the
past decade owing to the discovery of mutations that drive carcinogenesis and the …