Melanoma treatment in review

B Domingues, JM Lopes, P Soares… - ImmunoTargets and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Melanoma represents the most aggressive and the deadliest form of skin cancer. Current
therapeutic approaches include surgical resection, chemotherapy, photodynamic therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical development of BRAF plus MEK inhibitor combinations

V Subbiah, C Baik, JM Kirkwood - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Genomic profiling shows that many solid tumors are characterized by specific driver
aberrations, and this has expanded the therapeutic options for many patients. The mitogen …

[HTML][HTML] The crucial role of protein phosphorylation in cell signaling and its use as targeted therapy

F Ardito, M Giuliani, D Perrone… - International …, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
Protein phosphorylation is an important cellular regulatory mechanism as many enzymes
and receptors are activated/deactivated by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation events …

[HTML][HTML] Non-small cell lung cancer: current treatment and future advances

C Zappa, SA Mousa - Translational lung cancer research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lung cancer has a poor prognosis; over half of people diagnosed with lung cancer die
within one year of diagnosis and the 5-year survival is less than 18%. Non-small cell lung …

Innate and adaptive immune cells in the tumor microenvironment

TF Gajewski, H Schreiber, YX Fu - Nature immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Most tumor cells express antigens that can mediate recognition by host CD8+ T cells.
Cancers that are detected clinically must have evaded antitumor immune responses to grow …

New and emerging targeted treatments in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer

FR Hirsch, K Suda, J Wiens, PA Bunn - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Targeted therapies are substantially changing the management of lung cancers. These
treatments include drugs that target driver mutations, those that target presumed important …

Anti-cancer chalcones: Structural and molecular target perspectives

DK Mahapatra, SK Bharti, V Asati - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Chalcone or (E)-1, 3-diphenyl-2-propene-1-one scaffold remained a fascination
among researchers in the 21st century due to its simple chemistry, ease of synthesis and a …

Vemurafenib: the first drug approved for BRAF-mutant cancer

G Bollag, J Tsai, J Zhang, C Zhang, P Ibrahim… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2012 - nature.com
The identification of driver oncogenes has provided important targets for drugs that can
change the landscape of cancer therapies. One such example is the BRAF oncogene, which …

Ras in cancer and developmental diseases

A Fernández-Medarde, E Santos - Genes & cancer, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Somatic, gain-of-function mutations in ras genes were the first specific genetic alterations
identified in human cancer about 3 decades ago. Studies during the last quarter century …

[HTML][HTML] BRAF Mutations in Hairy-Cell Leukemia

E Tiacci, V Trifonov, G Schiavoni… - … England Journal of …, 2011 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Hairy-cell leukemia (HCL) is a well-defined clinicopathological entity whose
underlying genetic lesion is still obscure. Methods We searched for HCL-associated …