Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

H Jin, L Wang, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, elucidation of the genetic defects that underlie cancer has
resulted in a plethora of novel targeted cancer drugs. Although these agents can initially be …

Delivering precision oncology to patients with cancer

J Mateo, L Steuten, P Aftimos, F André, M Davies… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
With the increasing use of genomic profiling for diagnosis and therapy guidance in many
tumor types, precision oncology is rapidly reshaping cancer care. However, the current …

γδ T cells are effectors of immunotherapy in cancers with HLA class I defects

NL de Vries, J van de Haar, V Veninga, M Chalabi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair-deficient (MMR-d) cancers present an abundance of neoantigens that
is thought to explain their exceptional responsiveness to immune checkpoint blockade …

IL-5-producing CD4+ T cells and eosinophils cooperate to enhance response to immune checkpoint blockade in breast cancer

OS Blomberg, L Spagnuolo, H Garner, L Voorwerk… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has heralded a new era in cancer therapy. Research
into the mechanisms underlying response to ICB has predominantly focused on T cells; …

Insights for precision oncology from the integration of genomic and clinical data of 13,880 tumors from the 100,000 Genomes Cancer Programme

A Sosinsky, J Ambrose, W Cross, C Turnbull… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Cancer Programme of the 100,000 Genomes Project was an initiative to
provide whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for patients with cancer, evaluating opportunities …

Small molecules, big impact: 20 years of targeted therapy in oncology

PL Bedard, DM Hyman, MS Davids, LL Siu - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
The identification of molecular targets and the growing knowledge of their cellular functions
have led to the development of small molecule inhibitors as a major therapeutic class for …

Comprehensive genomic and transcriptomic analysis for guiding therapeutic decisions in patients with rare cancers

P Horak, C Heining, S Kreutzfeldt, B Hutter, A Mock… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
The clinical relevance of comprehensive molecular analysis in rare cancers is not
established. We analyzed the molecular profiles and clinical outcomes of 1,310 patients …

Pan-cancer whole-genome analyses of metastatic solid tumours

P Priestley, J Baber, MP Lolkema, N Steeghs… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Metastatic cancer is a major cause of death and is associated with poor treatment efficacy. A
better understanding of the characteristics of late-stage cancer is required to help adapt …

Real-world data from a molecular tumor board demonstrates improved outcomes with a precision N-of-One strategy

S Kato, KH Kim, HJ Lim, A Boichard… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) can identify novel cancer targets. However, interpreting
the molecular findings and accessing drugs/clinical trials is challenging. Furthermore, many …

Patient-derived organoids as a predictive biomarker for treatment response in cancer patients

GE Wensink, SG Elias, J Mullenders… - NPJ precision …, 2021 - nature.com
Effective predictive biomarkers are needed to enable personalized medicine and increase
treatment efficacy and survival for cancer patients, thereby reducing toxic side effects and …