Network pharmacology: curing causal mechanisms instead of treating symptoms

C Nogales, ZM Mamdouh, M List, C Kiel… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
For complex diseases, most drugs are highly ineffective, and the success rate of drug
discovery is in constant decline. While low quality, reproducibility issues, and translational …

Molecular targeted therapy for anticancer treatment

HY Min, HY Lee - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Since the initial clinical approval in the late 1990s and remarkable anticancer effects for
certain types of cancer, molecular targeted therapy utilizing small molecule agents or …

[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 …

Diffuse glioma heterogeneity and its therapeutic implications

JG Nicholson, HA Fine - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Diffuse gliomas represent a heterogeneous group of universally lethal brain tumors
characterized by minimally effective genotype-targeted therapies. Recent advances have …

[HTML][HTML] Three subtypes of lung cancer fibroblasts define distinct therapeutic paradigms

H Hu, Z Piotrowska, PJ Hare, H Chen, HE Mulvey… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are highly heterogeneous. With the lack of a
comprehensive understanding of CAFs' functional distinctions, it remains unclear how …

Longitudinal single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals stress-promoted chemoresistance in metastatic ovarian cancer

K Zhang, EP Erkan, S Jamalzadeh, J Dai… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Chemotherapy resistance is a critical contributor to cancer mortality and thus an urgent
unmet challenge in oncology. To characterize chemotherapy resistance processes in high …

Emerging insights of tumor heterogeneity and drug resistance mechanisms in lung cancer targeted therapy

ZF Lim, PC Ma - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2019 - Springer
The biggest hurdle to targeted cancer therapy is the inevitable emergence of drug
resistance. Tumor cells employ different mechanisms to resist the targeting agent. Most …

The biology and management of non-small cell lung cancer

RS Herbst, D Morgensztern, C Boshoff - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Important advancements in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have been
achieved over the past two decades, increasing our understanding of the disease biology …

Tumour heterogeneity and resistance to cancer therapies

I Dagogo-Jack, AT Shaw - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer is a dynamic disease. During the course of disease, cancers generally become more
heterogeneous. As a result of this heterogeneity, the bulk tumour might include a diverse …

Clonal heterogeneity and tumor evolution: past, present, and the future

N McGranahan, C Swanton - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Intratumor heterogeneity, which fosters tumor evolution, is a key challenge in cancer
medicine. Here, we review data and technologies that have revealed intra-tumor …