Tumour evolution in hepatocellular carcinoma

AJ Craig, J Von Felden, T Garcia-Lezana… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of primary liver cancer, typically
develops on the background of chronic liver disease and is an aggressive disease with …

Synthetic lethality as an engine for cancer drug target discovery

A Huang, LA Garraway, A Ashworth… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
The first wave of genetically targeted therapies for cancer focused on drugging gene
products that are recurrently mutated in specific cancer types. However, mutational analysis …

[PDF][PDF] Therapy-induced evolution of human lung cancer revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

A Maynard, CE McCoach, JK Rotow, L Harris, F Haderk… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer mortality, exhibits heterogeneity that enables
adaptability, limits therapeutic success, and remains incompletely understood. Single-cell …

Antitumor activity of crizotinib in lung cancers harboring a MET exon 14 alteration

A Drilon, JW Clark, J Weiss, SHI Ou, DR Camidge… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
MET exon 14 alterations are oncogenic drivers of non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs).
These alterations are associated with increased MET activity and preclinical sensitivity to …

Brigatinib versus crizotinib in advanced ALK inhibitor–naive ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer: second interim analysis of the phase III ALTA-1L trial

DR Camidge, HR Kim, MJ Ahn, JCH Yang… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Brigatinib, a next-generation anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor,
demonstrated superior progression-free survival (PFS) and improved health-related quality …

[HTML][HTML] Brain malignancies: Glioblastoma and brain metastases

TT Lah, M Novak, B Breznik - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Brain, the major organ of the central nervous system controls and processes most of body
activities. Therefore, the most aggressive brain tumor–glioblastoma and metastases from …

Management of brain metastases according to molecular subtypes

R Soffietti, M Ahluwalia, N Lin, R Rudà - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
The incidence of brain metastases has markedly increased in the past 20 years owing to
progress in the treatment of malignant solid tumours, earlier diagnosis by MRI and an …

Beyond EGFR, ALK and ROS1: current evidence and future perspectives on newly targetable oncogenic drivers in lung adenocarcinoma

G Lamberti, E Andrini, M Sisi, A Rizzo, C Parisi… - Critical reviews in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. In the past decade EGFR, ALK
and ROS1 TKIs lead to an unprecedented survival improvement of oncogene-addicted …

Patient-reported outcomes following pembrolizumab or placebo plus pemetrexed and platinum in patients with previously untreated, metastatic, non-squamous non …

MC Garassino, S Gadgeel, E Esteban, E Felip… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Pembrolizumab plus pemetrexed–platinum led to superior overall survival and
progression-free survival, and a higher proportion of patients with a confirmed complete or …

Localized cocktail chemoimmunotherapy after in situ gelation to trigger robust systemic antitumor immune responses

Y Chao, C Liang, H Tao, Y Du, D Wu, Z Dong, Q Jin… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Currently, there is a huge demand to develop chemoimmunotherapy with reduced systemic
toxicity and potent efficacy to combat late-stage cancers with spreading metastases. Here …