Targeting PI3K/Akt signal transduction for cancer therapy

Y He, MM Sun, GG Zhang, J Yang, KS Chen… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway plays a crucial role in various
cellular processes and is aberrantly activated in cancers, contributing to the occurrence and …

Targeting Akt in cancer for precision therapy

H Hua, H Zhang, J Chen, J Wang, J Liu… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Biomarkers-guided precision therapeutics has revolutionized the clinical development and
administration of molecular-targeted anticancer agents. Tailored precision cancer therapy …

Clinical cancer genomic profiling

D Chakravarty, DB Solit - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Technological innovation and rapid reduction in sequencing costs have enabled the
genomic profiling of hundreds of cancer-associated genes as a component of routine cancer …

Targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor in EGFR-mutated lung cancer: current and emerging therapies

K Khaddour, S Jonna, A Deneka, JD Patel… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations occur in a significant
number of lung cancer patients. Treatment outcomes in this subset of patients has greatly …

The oncogenic role of ubiquitin specific peptidase (USP8) and its signaling pathways targeting for cancer therapeutics

MT Islam, F Chen, H Chen - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
USP8 is a deubiquitinating enzyme in the family of ubiquitin-specific proteases (USPs)
which can remove ubiquitin from the substrate and protect the substrate from degradation …

Ocular toxicity of targeted anticancer agents

BH Fortes, PD Tailor, LA Dalvin - Drugs, 2021 - Springer
The proliferation of targeted anticancer agents over the last two decades has revolutionized
cancer treatment and improved survival in many previously refractory malignancies …

Epidermal growth factor receptor expression and resistance patterns to targeted therapy in non-small cell lung cancer: A review

EA Karlsen, S Kahler, J Tefay, SR Joseph, F Simpson - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Globally, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death. The majority of non-small
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumours express epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which …

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer: a patent review (2014-present)

X Sun, S Xu, Z Yang, P Zheng… - Expert Opinion on …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: EGFR is the receptor for epidermal growth factor (EGF) and belongs to the
protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) receptor. It is closely related to the inhibition of tumor cell …

Mechanism of hepatotoxicity of first-line tyrosine kinase inhibitors: Gefitinib and afatinib

Y Zhang, Y Cai, SR Zhang, CY Li, LL Jiang, P Wei… - Toxicology Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Aims Both gefitinib and afatinib are epidermal growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-
TKI) in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). It has been reported that …

Cost-effectiveness of lorlatinib as a first-line therapy for untreated advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive non-small cell lung cancer

SN Li, JH Li, LB Peng, YM Li, XM Wan - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Recently, a phase III CROWN trial compared the efficacy of two anaplastic
lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitors and demonstrated that lorlatinib displayed clinical …