5-fluorouracil and other fluoropyrimidines in colorectal cancer: Past, present and future

S Vodenkova, T Buchler, K Cervena… - Pharmacology & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fluorouracil (5-FU) is an essential component of systemic chemotherapy for colorectal
cancer (CRC) in the palliative and adjuvant settings. Over the past four decades, several …

Co-occurring genomic alterations in non-small-cell lung cancer biology and therapy

F Skoulidis, JV Heymach - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
The impressive clinical activity of small-molecule receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors for
oncogene-addicted subgroups of non-small-cell lung cancer (for example, those driven by …

Challenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology

TM Errington, A Denis, N Perfito, E Iorns, BA Nosek - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
We conducted the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology to investigate the replicability of
preclinical research in cancer biology. The initial aim of the project was to repeat 193 …

Mechanisms of APOBEC3 mutagenesis in human cancer cells

M Petljak, A Dananberg, K Chu, EN Bergstrom… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The APOBEC3 family of cytosine deaminases has been implicated in some of the most
prevalent mutational signatures in cancer,–. However, a causal link between endogenous …

A metastasis map of human cancer cell lines

X Jin, Z Demere, K Nair, A Ali, GB Ferraro, T Natoli… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Most deaths from cancer are explained by metastasis, and yet large-scale metastasis
research has been impractical owing to the complexity of in vivo models. Here we introduce …

Discovering the anticancer potential of non-oncology drugs by systematic viability profiling

SM Corsello, RT Nagari, RD Spangler, J Rossen… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Anticancer uses of non-oncology drugs have occasionally been found, but such discoveries
have been serendipitous. We sought to create a public resource containing the growth …

A review of computational drug repositioning: strategies, approaches, opportunities, challenges, and directions

TN Jarada, JG Rokne, R Alhajj - Journal of cheminformatics, 2020 - Springer
Drug repositioning is the process of identifying novel therapeutic potentials for existing drugs
and discovering therapies for untreated diseases. Drug repositioning, therefore, plays an …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting p53 for the treatment of cancer

MJ Duffy, NC Synnott, S O'Grady, J Crown - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Dysfunction of the TP53 (p53) gene occurs in most if not all human malignancies. Two
principal mechanisms are responsible for this dysfunction; mutation and downregulation of …

Patient-derived organoids can predict response to chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer patients

SN Ooft, F Weeber, KK Dijkstra, CM McLean… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
There is a clear and unmet clinical need for biomarkers to predict responsiveness to
chemotherapy for cancer. We developed an in vitro test based on patient-derived tumor …

Machine learning approaches to drug response prediction: challenges and recent progress

G Adam, L Rampášek, Z Safikhani, P Smirnov… - NPJ precision …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Identifying the best treatment using
computational models to personalize drug response prediction holds great promise to …