Targeting HER2-positive breast cancer: advances and future directions

SM Swain, M Shastry, E Hamilton - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2023 - nature.com
The long-sought discovery of HER2 as an actionable and highly sensitive therapeutic target
was a major breakthrough for the treatment of highly aggressive HER2-positive breast …

Unlocking the potential of antibody–drug conjugates for cancer therapy

JZ Drago, S Modi, S Chandarlapaty - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
Nine different antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) are currently approved as cancer
treatments, with dozens more in preclinical and clinical development. The primary goal of …

Payload diversification: a key step in the development of antibody–drug conjugates

L Conilh, L Sadilkova, W Viricel, C Dumontet - Journal of Hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) is a fast moving class of targeted biotherapeutics that
currently combines the selectivity of monoclonal antibodies with the potency of a payload …

Site-selective modification strategies in antibody–drug conjugates

SJ Walsh, JD Bargh, FM Dannheim… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) harness the highly specific targeting capabilities of an
antibody to deliver a cytotoxic payload to specific cell types. They have garnered …

Antibody–drug conjugates: The last decade

N Joubert, A Beck, C Dumontet, C Denevault-Sabourin - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
An armed antibody (antibody–drug conjugate or ADC) is a vectorized chemotherapy, which
results from the grafting of a cytotoxic agent onto a monoclonal antibody via a judiciously …

Trastuzumab emtansine plus atezolizumab versus trastuzumab emtansine plus placebo in previously treated, HER2-positive advanced breast cancer (KATE2): a …

LA Emens, FJ Esteva, M Beresford, C Saura… - The lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer is incurable and new treatments are
needed. Addition of atezolizumab to trastuzumab emtansine might potentiate anticancer …

Optimizing the safety of antibody–drug conjugates for patients with solid tumours

P Tarantino, B Ricciuti, SM Pradhan… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past 5 years, improvements in the design of antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs)
have enabled major advances that have reshaped the treatment of several advanced-stage …

Mechanisms of ADC toxicity and strategies to increase ADC tolerability

TD Nguyen, BM Bordeau, JP Balthasar - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) are a rapidly expanding class of anti-
cancer drugs, with twelve agents in current clinical use. Despite recent successes, many …

Combining antibody-drug conjugates with immunotherapy in solid tumors: current landscape and future perspectives

E Nicolò, F Giugliano, L Ascione, P Tarantino… - Cancer Treatment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and immunotherapy have prompted a revolution in the
treatment of cancer. However, only a limited fraction of patients obtained a long-term benefit; …

Antibody-drug conjugate-based therapeutics: state of the science

MJ Birrer, KN Moore, I Betella… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are complex engineered therapeutics consisting of
monoclonal antibodies, directed toward tumor-associated antigens, to which highly potent …