Biomarker-guided therapy for colorectal cancer: strength in complexity

A Sveen, S Kopetz, RA Lothe - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2020 - nature.com
The number of molecularly stratified treatment options available to patients with colorectal
cancer (CRC) is increasing, with a parallel rise in the use of biomarkers to guide …

[HTML][HTML] NTRK fusion in non-small cell lung cancer: diagnosis, therapy, and TRK inhibitor resistance

F Liu, Y Wei, H Zhang, J Jiang, P Zhang… - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Neurotrophic tropomyosin receptor kinase (NTRK) gene fusion has been identified as an
oncogenic driver of various solid tumors, and it is rare in non-smalll cell lung cancer …

Somatic genomic testing in patients with metastatic or advanced cancer: ASCO provisional clinical opinion

D Chakravarty, A Johnson, J Sklar… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE An ASCO provisional clinical opinion offers timely clinical direction to ASCO's
membership following publication or presentation of potentially practice-changing data from …

TRK fusions are enriched in cancers with uncommon histologies and the absence of canonical driver mutations

EY Rosen, DA Goldman, JF Hechtman, R Benayed… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: TRK inhibitors achieve marked tumor-agnostic efficacy in TRK fusion–positive
cancers and consequently are now an established standard of care. Little is known …

Therapeutic advances in metastatic pancreatic cancer: a focus on targeted therapies

A Turpin, C Neuzillet, E Colle… - … in medical oncology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Mortality from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is increasing worldwide and
effective new treatments are urgently needed. The current treatment of metastatic PDAC in fit …

[HTML][HTML] SWI/SNF complex gene variations are associated with a higher tumor mutational burden and a better response to immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment: a …

Y Li, X Yang, W Zhu, Y Xu, J Ma, C He, F Wang - Cancer Cell International, 2022 - Springer
Background Genes related to the SWItch/sucrose nonfermentable (SWI/SNF) chromatin
remodeling complex are frequently mutated across cancers. SWI/SNF-mutant tumors are …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of NTRK 1/2/3 fusion prevalence pan-cancer and across solid tumours

S O'Haire, F Franchini, YJ Kang, J Steinberg… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
NTRK gene fusions are rare somatic mutations found across cancer types with promising
targeted therapies emerging. Healthcare systems face significant challenges in integrating …

[HTML][HTML] Canadian consensus for biomarker testing and treatment of TRK fusion cancer in adults

DG Bebb, S Banerji, N Blais, P Desmeules, S Gill… - Current …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The tyrosine receptor kinase (TRK) inhibitors larotrectinib and entrectinib were recently
approved in Canada for the treatment of solid tumours harbouring neurotrophic tyrosine …

Colonic adenocarcinomas harboring NTRK fusion genes: a clinicopathologic and molecular genetic study of 16 cases and review of the literature

J Lasota, M Chlopek, J Lamoureux… - The American journal …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
This study was undertaken to determine the frequency, and the clinicopathologic and
genetic features, of colon cancers driven by neurotrophic receptor tyrosine kinase (NTRK) …

RNA sequencing reveals novel oncogenic fusions and depicts detailed fusion transcripts of FN1-FGFR1 in phosphaturic mesenchymal tumors

X Liu, X Yin, D Li, K Li, H Zhang, J Lu, L Zhou, J Gao… - Modern Pathology, 2023 - Elsevier
Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumors (PMTs) are rare neoplasms of soft tissue or bone.
Although previous studies revealed that approximately 50% of PMTs harbor FN1:: FGFR1 …