Lung cancer in patients who have never smoked—an emerging disease

J LoPiccolo, A Gusev, DC Christiani… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2024 - nature.com
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths globally. Although smoking-
related lung cancers continue to account for the majority of diagnoses, smoking rates have …

Drugging KRAS: current perspectives and state-of-art review

K Parikh, G Banna, SV Liu, A Friedlaender… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
After decades of efforts, we have recently made progress into targeting KRAS mutations in
several malignancies. Known as the 'holy grail'of targeted cancer therapies, KRAS is the …

Next batter up! Targeting cancers with KRAS-G12D mutations

MN Zeissig, LM Ashwood, O Kondrashova… - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene in cancer. Activating mutations in codon 12,
especially G12D, have the highest prevalence across a range of carcinomas and …

Impact of KRAS mutations and co-mutations on clinical outcomes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

A Yousef, M Yousef, S Chowdhury, K Abdilleh… - NPJ Precision …, 2024 - nature.com
The relevance of KRAS mutation alleles to clinical outcome remains inconclusive in
pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). We conducted a retrospective study of 803 patients …

[HTML][HTML] KRAS in NSCLC: state of the art and future perspectives

P Cascetta, A Marinello, C Lazzari, V Gregorc… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Rat sarcoma virus (RAS) GTP-ase proteins represent a key element in
cellular proliferation, growth, and differentiation. Three different isoforms of RAS proteins …

[HTML][HTML] Unveiling the role of KRAS in tumor immune microenvironment

M Xu, X Zhao, T Wen, X Qu - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Kirsten rats sarcoma viral oncogene (KRAS), the first discovered human oncogene, has long
been recognized as “undruggable”. KRAS mutations frequently occur in multiple human …

Resistance to KRAS G12C inhibition in non-small cell lung cancer

A Di Federico, I Ricciotti, V Favorito… - Current Oncology …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Although the recent development of direct KRASG12C inhibitors
(G12Ci) has improved outcomes in KRAS mutant cancers, responses occur only in a fraction …

Immune checkpoint blockade resistance in lung cancer: emerging mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

JM Konen, H Wu, DL Gibbons - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy works by inhibiting suppressive checkpoints that
become upregulated after T cell activation, like PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4. While the initial …

Efficacy of immunotherapy in oncogene-driven non-small-cell lung cancer

NI Vokes, K Pan, X Le - Therapeutic advances in medical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
For advanced metastatic non-small-lung cancer, the landscape of actionable driver
alterations is rapidly growing, with nine targetable oncogenes and seven approvals within …

Oncogenic context shapes the fitness landscape of tumor suppression

LM Blair, JM Juan, L Sebastian, VB Tran, W Nie… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tumors acquire alterations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes in an adaptive walk
through the fitness landscape of tumorigenesis. However, the interactions between …