Molecular therapies and precision medicine for hepatocellular carcinoma

JM Llovet, R Montal, D Sia, RS Finn - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
The global burden of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is increasing and might soon surpass
an annual incidence of 1 million cases. Genomic studies have established the landscape of …

systemic treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

M Pinter, M Peck‐Radosavljevic - Alimentary pharmacology & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background The approval of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor sorafenib in 2007 marked a
milestone in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, as sorafenib was the first systemic …

Phospho-ERK is a biomarker of response to a synthetic lethal drug combination of sorafenib and MEK inhibition in liver cancer

C Wang, H Jin, D Gao, C Lieftink, B Evers, G Jin… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Treatment of liver cancer remains challenging because of a paucity of
drugs that target critical dependencies. Sorafenib is a multikinase inhibitor that is approved …

Phase II Studies with Refametinib or Refametinib plus Sorafenib in Patients with RAS-Mutated Hepatocellular Carcinoma

HY Lim, P Merle, KH Weiss, T Yau, P Ross… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: Refametinib, an oral MEK inhibitor, has demonstrated antitumor activity in
combination with sorafenib in patients with RAS-mutated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) …

[HTML][HTML] Combined delivery of sorafenib and a MEK inhibitor using CXCR4-targeted nanoparticles reduces hepatic fibrosis and prevents tumor development

YC Sung, YC Liu, PH Chao, CC Chang, PR Jin… - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Liver damage and fibrosis are precursors of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In HCC
patients, sorafenib—a multikinase inhibitor drug—has been reported to exert anti-fibrotic …

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 1-hydroxy-2-phenyl-4-pyridyl-1H-imidazole derivatives as xanthine oxidase inhibitors

T Zhang, Y Lv, Y Lei, D Liu, Y Feng, J Zhao… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
In our previous study, we reported a series of 1-hydroxy-2-phenyl-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylic
acid derivatives that presented excellent in vitro xanthine oxidase inhibitory potency. As a …

Efficacy and safety of apatinib in patients with intermediate/advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a prospective observation study

WC Yu, KZ Zhang, SG Chen, WF Liu - Medicine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Efficacy and Safety of apatinib in patients with intermediat... : Medicine Efficacy and Safety of
apatinib in patients with intermediate/advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: A prospective …

A miR-29b Byproduct Sequence Exhibits Potent Tumor-Suppressive Activities via Inhibition of NF-κB Signaling in KRAS-Mutant Colon Cancer Cells

A Inoue, T Mizushima, X Wu, D Okuzaki… - Molecular cancer …, 2018 - AACR
We previously demonstrated that miR-29b-3p is a hopeful miRNA-based therapy against
colorectal cancer. In this study, we aimed to clarify a value of miR-29b-1-5p as a next …

Integrative omics analyses broaden treatment targets in human cancer

S Sengupta, SQ Sun, K Huang, C Oh, MH Bailey… - Genome medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Although large-scale, next-generation sequencing (NGS) studies of cancers
hold promise for enabling precision oncology, challenges remain in integrating NGS with …

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor promotes resistance to MEK blockade in KRAS mutant colorectal cancer cells

SK Cheon, HP Kim, YL Park, JE Jang, Y Lim… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Although MEK blockade has been highlighted as a promising antitumor drug, it has poor
clinical efficacy in KRAS mutant colorectal cancer (CRC). Several feedback systems have …