Tyrosine kinase inhibitors for solid tumors in the past 20 years (2001–2020)

L Huang, S Jiang, Y Shi - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2020 - Springer
Tyrosine kinases are implicated in tumorigenesis and progression, and have emerged as
major targets for drug discovery. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) inhibit corresponding …

Overcoming endocrine resistance in breast cancer

AB Hanker, DR Sudhan, CL Arteaga - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer is the most common breast cancer subtype.
Treatment of ER+ breast cancer comprises interventions that suppress estrogen production …

NTRK fusion-positive cancers and TRK inhibitor therapy

E Cocco, M Scaltriti, A Drilon - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
N TRK gene fusions involving either NTRK1, NTRK2 or NTRK3 (encoding the neurotrophin
receptors TRKA, TRKB and TRKC, respectively) are oncogenic drivers of various adult and …

Larotrectinib in patients with TRK fusion-positive solid tumours: a pooled analysis of three phase 1/2 clinical trials

DS Hong, SG DuBois, S Kummar, AF Farago… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The selective TRK inhibitor larotrectinib was approved for paediatric and adult
patients with advanced TRK fusion-positive solid tumours based on a primary analysis set of …

Precision oncology in metastatic colorectal cancer—from biology to medicine

F Di Nicolantonio, PP Vitiello, S Marsoni… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
Remarkable progress has been made in the development of biomarker-driven targeted
therapies for patients with multiple cancer types, including melanoma, breast and lung …

Overcoming resistance to tumor-targeted and immune-targeted therapies

M Aldea, F Andre, A Marabelle, S Dogan, F Barlesi… - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
Resistance to anticancer therapies includes primary resistance, usually related to lack of
target dependency or presence of additional targets, and secondary resistance, mostly …

ROS1-dependent cancers—biology, diagnostics and therapeutics

A Drilon, C Jenkins, S Iyer, A Schoenfeld… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
The proto-oncogene ROS1 encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase with an unknown
physiological role in humans. Somatic chromosomal fusions involving ROS1 produce …

The evolution of RET inhibitor resistance in RET-driven lung and thyroid cancers

EY Rosen, HH Won, Y Zheng, E Cocco… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The efficacy of the highly selective RET inhibitor selpercatinib is now established in RET-
driven cancers, and we sought to characterize the molecular determinants of response and …

[HTML][HTML] TRK inhibitors in TRK fusion-positive cancers

A Drilon - Annals of Oncology, 2019 - Elsevier
TRK fusions are oncogenic drivers of various adult and paediatric cancers. The first-
generation TRK inhibitors, larotrectinib and entrectinib, were granted landmark, tumour …

[HTML][HTML] NTRK insights: best practices for pathologists

JF Hechtman - Modern Pathology, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of an oncogenic tropomyosin-receptor kinase (TRK) fusion protein in the
early 1980s, our understanding of neurotrophic tropomyosin-receptor kinase (NTRK) …