Facts and new hopes on selective FGFR inhibitors in solid tumors

F Facchinetti, A Hollebecque, R Bahleda, Y Loriot… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Precision oncology relies on the identification of molecular alterations, responsible for tumor
initiation and growth, which are suitable targets of specific inhibitors. The development of …

Molecular pathology of primary non-small cell lung cancer

DI Suster, M Mino-Kenudson - Archives of medical research, 2020 - Elsevier
Lung carcinoma is one of the most common human cancers and is estimated to have an
incidence of approximately 2 million new cases per year worldwide with a 20% mortality …

[HTML][HTML] Phase II study of AZD4547 in patients with tumors harboring aberrations in the FGFR pathway: results from the NCI-MATCH trial (EAY131) subprotocol W

YK Chae, F Hong, C Vaklavas, HH Cheng… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE NCI-MATCH is a nationwide, histology-agnostic, signal-finding, molecular profile–
driven trial for patients with refractory cancers, lymphomas, or myelomas. Patients with …

INCB054828 (pemigatinib), a potent and selective inhibitor of fibroblast growth factor receptors 1, 2, and 3, displays activity against genetically defined tumor models

PCC Liu, H Koblish, L Wu, K Bowman, S Diamond… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Alterations in fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) genes have been identified as
potential driver oncogenes. Pharmacological targeting of FGFRs may therefore provide …

Erdafitinib for the treatment of metastatic bladder cancer

K Montazeri, J Bellmunt - Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Since the approval of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), there has been
continuing and significant progress in urothelial cancer (UC) treatment. However, only about …

Targeting non-small cell lung cancer: driver mutation beyond epidermal growth factor mutation and anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusion

QS Chu - Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The identification of driver mutations in epidermal growth factor receptor, anaplastic
lymphoma kinase, the BRAF and ROS1 genes and subsequent successful clinical …

ACE2 polymorphisms and individual susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection: insights from an in silico study

M Calcagnile, P Forgez, A Iannelli, C Bucci, M Alifano… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The current SARS covid-19 epidemic spread appears to be influenced by ethnical,
geographical and sex-related factors that may involve genetic susceptibility to diseases …

Inhibition of the FGF/FGFR system induces apoptosis in lung cancer cells via c-Myc downregulation and oxidative stress

A Giacomini, S Taranto, S Rezzola… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer represents an extremely diffused neoplastic disorder with different
histological/molecular features. Among the different lung tumors, non-small-cell lung cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale transcriptome analysis identified RNA methylation regulators as novel prognostic signatures for lung adenocarcinoma

L Sun, WK Liu, XW Du, XL Liu, G Li, Y Yao… - Annals of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The abnormal expression of genes is an essential factor affecting the prognosis
of cancer. RNA modification is a way of regulating post-transcriptional levels, including m 6 …

Circulating tumor cells as a biomarker to assist molecular diagnosis for early stage non-small cell lung cancer

Y He, J Shi, B Schmidt, Q Liu, G Shi, X Xu… - Cancer Management …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background and Objective Compared with tissue biopsy, liquid biopsy is the most preferable
non-invasive promising method in personalized medicine, although it has many limitations …