Pathogenesis of cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells

JA Fagin, GP Krishnamoorthy, I Landa - Nature reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The genomic simplicity of differentiated cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells offers
unique insights into how oncogenic drivers impact tumour phenotype. Essentially, the main …

Molecular pathogenesis and mechanisms of thyroid cancer

M Xing - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine malignancy. There has been exciting progress in
understanding its molecular pathogenesis in recent years, as best exemplified by the …

Dabrafenib and Trametinib Treatment in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic BRAF V600–Mutant Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer

V Subbiah, RJ Kreitman, ZA Wainberg… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose We report the efficacy and safety of dabrafenib (BRAF inhibitor) and trametinib
(MEK inhibitor) combination therapy in BRAF V600E–mutated anaplastic thyroid cancer, a …

Integrated genomic characterization of papillary thyroid carcinoma

N Agrawal, R Akbani, BA Aksoy, A Ally, H Arachchi… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer. Here, we
describe the genomic landscape of 496 PTCs. We observed a low frequency of somatic …

Immune and inflammatory cells in thyroid cancer microenvironment

SM Ferrari, P Fallahi, MR Galdiero, I Ruffilli… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
A hallmark of cancer is the ability of tumor cells to avoid immune destruction. Activated
immune cells in tumor microenvironment (TME) secrete proinflammatory cytokines and …

Targeting myeloid derived suppressor cells reverts immune suppression and sensitizes BRAF-mutant papillary thyroid cancer to MAPK inhibitors

P Zhang, H Guan, S Yuan, H Cheng, J Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
MAPK signaling inhibitor (MAPKi) therapies show limited efficacy for advanced thyroid
cancers despite constitutive activation of the signaling correlates with disease recurrence …

Relief of Feedback Inhibition of HER3 Transcription by RAF and MEK Inhibitors Attenuates Their Antitumor Effects in BRAF-Mutant Thyroid Carcinomas

C Montero-Conde, S Ruiz-Llorente, JM Dominguez… - Cancer discovery, 2013 - AACR
The RAF inhibitor vemurafenib (PLX4032) increases survival in patients with BRAF-mutant
metastatic melanoma, but has limited efficacy in patients with colorectal cancers. Thyroid …

Inhibiting EGF receptor or SRC family kinase signaling overcomes BRAF inhibitor resistance in melanoma

MR Girotti, M Pedersen, B Sanchez-Laorden, A Viros… - Cancer discovery, 2013 - AACR
We generated cell lines resistant to BRAF inhibitors and show that the EGF receptor (EGFR)–
SRC family kinase (SFK)–STAT3 signaling pathway was upregulated in these cells. In …

[HTML][HTML] Small-molecule MAPK inhibitors restore radioiodine incorporation in mouse thyroid cancers with conditional BRAF activation

D Chakravarty, E Santos, M Ryder… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Advanced human thyroid cancers, particularly those that are refractory to treatment with
radioiodine (RAI), have a high prevalence of BRAF (v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene …

Sex bias in differentiated thyroid cancer

V Suteau, M Munier, C Briet, P Rodien - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Differentiated thyroid cancers are more frequent in women than in men. These different
frequencies may depend on differences in patient's behavior and in thyroid investigations …