Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

H **, L Wang, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, elucidation of the genetic defects that underlie cancer has
resulted in a plethora of novel targeted cancer drugs. Although these agents can initially be …

Exploring treatment options in cancer: tumor treatment strategies

B Liu, H Zhou, L Tan, KTH Siu, XY Guan - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Traditional therapeutic approaches such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy have
burdened cancer patients with onerous physical and psychological challenges …

Overall survival with adjuvant pembrolizumab in renal-cell carcinoma

TK Choueiri, P Tomczak, SH Park… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Adjuvant pembrolizumab therapy after surgery for renal-cell carcinoma was
approved on the basis of a significant improvement in disease-free survival in the KEYNOTE …

Belzutifan versus everolimus for advanced renal-cell carcinoma

TK Choueiri, T Powles, K Peltola… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Belzutifan, a hypoxia-inducible factor 2α inhibitor, showed clinical activity in
clear-cell renal-cell carcinoma in early-phase studies. Methods In a phase 3, multicenter …

Immunotherapy combination approaches: mechanisms, biomarkers and clinical observations

LH Butterfield, YG Najjar - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
The approval of the first immune checkpoint inhibitors provided a paradigm shift for the
treatment of malignancies across a broad range of indications. Whereas initially, single …

Cabozantinib plus nivolumab and ipilimumab in renal-cell carcinoma

TK Choueiri, T Powles, L Albiges… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The efficacy and safety of treatment with cabozantinib in combination with
nivolumab and ipilimumab in patients with previously untreated advanced renal-cell …

Immune-checkpoint inhibitors: long-term implications of toxicity

DB Johnson, CA Nebhan, JJ Moslehi… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has heralded a new era in cancer
treatment, enabling the possibility of long-term survival in patients with metastatic disease …

Adaptive immune resistance at the tumour site: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

TK Kim, EN Vandsemb, RS Herbst… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumours employ various tactics to adapt and eventually resist immune attack. These
mechanisms are collectively called adaptive immune resistance (AIR). The first defined and …

Nivolumab plus chemotherapy or ipilimumab in gastro-oesophageal cancer

K Shitara, JA Ajani, M Moehler, M Garrido, C Gallardo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Standard first-line chemotherapy results in disease progression and death within one year in
most patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative gastro …

Kidney cancer, version 3.2022, NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology

RJ Motzer, E Jonasch, N Agarwal, A Alva… - Journal of the National …, 2022 - jnccn.org
The NCCN Guidelines for Kidney Cancer focus on the screening, diagnosis, staging,
treatment, and management of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Patients with relapsed or stage …