The tumour microenvironment after radiotherapy: mechanisms of resistance and recurrence

HE Barker, JTE Paget, AA Khan… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Radiotherapy plays a central part in curing cancer. For decades, most research on
improving treatment outcomes has focused on modulating radiation-induced biological …

Inhibition of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in solid tumors

PM LoRusso - Journal of clinical oncology, 2016 - ascopubs.org
The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway plays an integral role in many cellular
processes and is frequently altered in cancer, contributing to tumor growth and survival …

mTORC1 and mTORC2 in cancer and the tumor microenvironment

LC Kim, RS Cook, J Chen - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a crucial signaling node that integrates
environmental cues to regulate cell survival, proliferation and metabolism, and is often …

Strategies for optimizing the response of cancer and normal tissues to radiation

EJ Moding, MB Kastan, DG Kirsch - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
Approximately 50% of all patients with cancer receive radiation therapy at some point during
the course of their treatment, and the majority of these patients are treated with curative …

[HTML][HTML] Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway inhibitors in solid tumors: From laboratory to patients

F Janku - Cancer treatment reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is an intracellular signaling pathway
that has regulatory roles in cell survival, proliferation, and differentiation, and a critical role in …

Targeting ATR in vivo using the novel inhibitor VE-822 results in selective sensitization of pancreatic tumors to radiation

E Fokas, R Prevo, JR Pollard, PM Reaper… - Cell death & …, 2012 - nature.com
Combined radiochemotherapy is the currently used therapy for locally advanced pancreatic
ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), but normal tissue toxicity limits its application. Here we test …

Targeting PI3K in cancer: impact on tumor cells, their protective stroma, angiogenesis, and immunotherapy

K Okkenhaug, M Graupera, B Vanhaesebroeck - Cancer discovery, 2016 - AACR
The PI3K pathway is hyperactivated in most cancers, yet the capacity of PI3K inhibitors to
induce tumor cell death is limited. The efficacy of PI3K inhibition can also derive from …

PI3K inhibitors as new cancer therapeutics: implications for clinical trial design

C Massacesi, E Di Tomaso, P Urban… - OncoTargets and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The PI3K–AKT–mTOR pathway is frequently activated in cancer. PI3K inhibitors, including
the pan-PI3K inhibitor buparlisib (BKM120) and the PI3Kα-selective inhibitor alpelisib …

Buparlisib and paclitaxel in patients with platinum-pretreated recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (BERIL-1): a randomised, double …

D Soulières, S Faivre, R Mesía, É Remenár… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway activation in squamous
cell carcinoma of the head and neck contributes to treatment resistance and disease …

PD‐L1 blockade enhances response of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma to radiotherapy

A Azad, S Yin Lim, Z D'Costa, K Jones… - EMBO molecular …, 2017 - embopress.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is considered a non‐immunogenic tumor, and
immune checkpoint inhibitor monotherapy lacks efficacy in this disease. Radiotherapy (RT) …