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 …

Precision management of advanced non–small cell lung cancer

CY Yang, JCH Yang, PC Yang - Annual review of medicine, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The rapid evolution of treatment for advanced lung cancer is a story of how scientists have
struggled to move from nonselective cytotoxic chemotherapy to personalized precision …

[HTML][HTML] Capmatinib in MET Exon 14–Mutated or MET-Amplified Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

J Wolf, T Seto, JY Han, N Reguart… - … England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Among patients with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), MET exon 14
skipping mutations occur in 3 to 4% and MET amplifications occur in 1 to 6%. Capmatinib, a …

Tumor-associated macrophage, angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis markers predict prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer patients

I Hwang, JW Kim, K Ylaya, EJ Chung, H Kitano… - Journal of translational …, 2020 - Springer
Background The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a critical player in tumor progression,
metastasis and therapy outcomes. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are a well …

Gefitinib alone versus gefitinib plus chemotherapy for non–small-cell lung cancer with mutated epidermal growth factor receptor: NEJ009 study

Y Hosomi, S Morita, S Sugawara, T Kato… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor combined with
cytotoxic chemotherapy is highly effective for the treatment of advanced non–small-cell lung …

[HTML][HTML] Afatinib for the treatment of NSCLC harboring uncommon EGFR mutations: a database of 693 cases

JCH Yang, M Schuler, S Popat, S Miura… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction Limited clinical data are available regarding the efficacy of EGFR tyrosine
kinase inhibitors (EGFR TKIs) in patients with NSCLC harboring uncommon EGFR …

CH7233163 overcomes osimertinib-resistant EGFR-Del19/T790M/C797S mutation

K Kashima, H Kawauchi, H Tanimura… - Molecular cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Osimertinib is the only EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) capable of overcoming EGFR-
T790M–mutated NSCLC, but osimertinib-resistant EGFR triple mutations …

ECOG performance status≥ 2 as a prognostic factor in patients with advanced non small cell lung cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors—a systematic …

FG Dall'Olio, I Maggio, M Massucci, V Mollica… - Lung Cancer, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives ICIs have been approved and are routinely administered regardless of
performance status (PS), despite randomized clinical trials of ICIs alone or combined with …

[HTML][HTML] Tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of EGFR mutation-positive non–small-cell lung cancer: a clash of the generations

R Shah, JF Lester - Clinical lung cancer, 2020 - Elsevier
The availability of 3 generations of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase
inhibitors (TKIs) with different pharmacologic characteristics and clinical profiles has …

Abnormally activated OPN/integrin αVβ3/FAK signalling is responsible for EGFR-TKI resistance in EGFR mutant non-small-cell lung cancer

Y Fu, Y Zhang, Z Lei, T Liu, T Cai, A Wang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Acquired epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI)
resistance limits the long-term clinical efficacy of tyrosine kinase-targeting drugs. Although …