Pathogenesis of cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells

JA Fagin, GP Krishnamoorthy, I Landa - Nature reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The genomic simplicity of differentiated cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells offers
unique insights into how oncogenic drivers impact tumour phenotype. Essentially, the main …

Targeting RAF kinases for cancer therapy: BRAF-mutated melanoma and beyond

M Holderfield, MM Deuker, F McCormick… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
The identification of mutationally activated BRAF in many cancers altered our conception of
the part played by the RAF family of protein kinases in oncogenesis. In this Review, we …

Dabrafenib and Trametinib Treatment in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic BRAF V600–Mutant Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer

V Subbiah, RJ Kreitman, ZA Wainberg… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose We report the efficacy and safety of dabrafenib (BRAF inhibitor) and trametinib
(MEK inhibitor) combination therapy in BRAF V600E–mutated anaplastic thyroid cancer, a …

Integrated genomic characterization of papillary thyroid carcinoma

N Agrawal, R Akbani, BA Aksoy, A Ally, H Arachchi… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer. Here, we
describe the genomic landscape of 496 PTCs. We observed a low frequency of somatic …

Molecular pathogenesis and mechanisms of thyroid cancer

M Xing - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine malignancy. There has been exciting progress in
understanding its molecular pathogenesis in recent years, as best exemplified by the …

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 …

Targeting myeloid derived suppressor cells reverts immune suppression and sensitizes BRAF-mutant papillary thyroid cancer to MAPK inhibitors

P Zhang, H Guan, S Yuan, H Cheng, J Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
MAPK signaling inhibitor (MAPKi) therapies show limited efficacy for advanced thyroid
cancers despite constitutive activation of the signaling correlates with disease recurrence …

[HTML][HTML] Small-molecule MAPK inhibitors restore radioiodine incorporation in mouse thyroid cancers with conditional BRAF activation

D Chakravarty, E Santos, M Ryder… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Advanced human thyroid cancers, particularly those that are refractory to treatment with
radioiodine (RAI), have a high prevalence of BRAF (v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene …

Sex bias in differentiated thyroid cancer

V Suteau, M Munier, C Briet, P Rodien - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Differentiated thyroid cancers are more frequent in women than in men. These different
frequencies may depend on differences in patient's behavior and in thyroid investigations …

Genomic alterations in thyroid cancer: biological and clinical insights

I Landa, ME Cabanillas - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2024 - nature.com
Tumours can arise from thyroid follicular cells if they acquire driver mutations that
constitutively activate the MAPK signalling pathway. In addition, a limited set of additional …