Molecular targeting therapies for neuroblastoma: Progress and challenges

A Zafar, W Wang, G Liu, X Wang, W Xian… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is an urgent need to identify novel therapies for childhood cancers. Neuroblastoma is
the most common pediatric solid tumor, and accounts for~ 15% of childhood cancer‐related …

Neuroblastoma: molecular pathogenesis and therapy

CU Louis, JM Shohet - Annual review of medicine, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Neuroblastoma is a developmental tumor of young children arising from the embryonic
sympathoadrenal lineage of the neural crest. Neuroblastoma is the primary cause of death …

Harnessing connectivity in a large-scale small-molecule sensitivity dataset

B Seashore-Ludlow, MG Rees, JH Cheah, M Cokol… - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
Identifying genetic alterations that prime a cancer cell to respond to a particular therapeutic
agent can facilitate the development of precision cancer medicines. Cancer cell-line (CCL) …

ALK fusions in the pan-cancer setting: another tumor-agnostic target?

A Shreenivas, F Janku, MA Gouda, HZ Chen… - NPJ Precision …, 2023 - nature.com
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) alterations (activating mutations, amplifications, and
fusions/rearrangements) occur in~ 3.3% of cancers. ALK fusions/rearrangements are …

Neuroblastoma origin and therapeutic targets for immunotherapy

IV Kholodenko, DV Kalinovsky… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Neuroblastoma is a pediatric solid cancer of heterogeneous clinical behavior. The unique
features of this type of cancer frequently hamper the process of determining clinical …

ALK in neuroblastoma: biological and therapeutic implications

RM Trigg, SD Turner - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common and deadly solid tumour in children. Despite the
development of new treatment options for high-risk NB, over half of patients relapse and five …

ALK: a tyrosine kinase target for cancer therapy

VR Holla, YY Elamin, AM Bailey… - Molecular …, 2017 - molecularcasestudies.cshlp.org
The anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene plays an important physiologic role in the
development of the brain and can be oncogenically altered in several malignancies …

Neuroblastoma in children: Update on clinicopathologic and genetic prognostic factors

AA Ahmed, L Zhang, N Reddivalla… - Pediatric hematology …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in childhood accounting for 8–
10% of all childhood malignancies. The tumor is characterized by a spectrum of …

ALK ligand ALKAL2 potentiates MYCN‐driven neuroblastoma in the absence of ALK mutation

M Borenäs, G Umapathy, WY Lai, DE Lind… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
High‐risk neuroblastoma (NB) is responsible for a disproportionate number of childhood
deaths due to cancer. One indicator of high‐risk NB is amplification of the neural MYC …

[HTML][HTML] Using droplet digital PCR to analyze MYCN and ALK copy number in plasma from patients with neuroblastoma

M Lodrini, A Sprüssel, K Astrahantseff, D Tiburtius… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The invasive nature of surgical biopsies deters sequential application, and single biopsies
often fail to reflect tumor dynamics, intratumor heterogeneity and drug sensitivities likely to …