Clinical insights into small cell lung cancer: Tumor heterogeneity, diagnosis, therapy, and future directions

Z Megyesfalvi, CM Gay, H Popper… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is characterized by rapid growth and high metastatic capacity.
It has strong epidemiologic and biologic links to tobacco carcinogens. Although the majority …

Regulated cell death (RCD) in cancer: key pathways and targeted therapies

F Peng, M Liao, R Qin, S Zhu, C Peng, L Fu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Regulated cell death (RCD), also well-known as programmed cell death (PCD), refers to the
form of cell death that can be regulated by a variety of biomacromolecules, which is …

Small-cell lung cancer

CM Rudin, E Brambilla, C Faivre-Finn… - Nature Reviews Disease …, 2021 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) represents about 15% of all lung cancers and is marked by
an exceptionally high proliferative rate, strong predilection for early metastasis and poor …

The manipulation of apoptosis for cancer therapy using BH3-mimetic drugs

ST Diepstraten, MA Anderson, PE Czabotar… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that is regulated by the balance between
prosurvival and proapoptotic BCL-2 protein family members. Evasion of apoptosis is a …

Signal pathways and precision therapy of small-cell lung cancer

M Yuan, Y Zhao, HT Arkenau, T Lao, L Chu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) encounters up 15% of all lung cancers, and is characterized
by a high rate of proliferation, a tendency for early metastasis and generally poor prognosis …

Targeting BCL-2 regulated apoptosis in cancer

KJ Campbell, SWG Tait - Open biology, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ability of a cell to undergo mitochondrial apoptosis is governed by pro-and anti-
apoptotic members of the BCL-2 protein family. The equilibrium of pro-versus anti-apoptotic …

[HTML][HTML] Lung cancers: molecular characterization, clonal heterogeneity and evolution, and cancer stem cells

U Testa, G Castelli, E Pelosi - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer causes the largest number of cancer-related deaths in the world. Most (85%) of
lung cancers are classified as non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small-cell lung …

[HTML][HTML] Small cell lung cancer: novel treatments beyond immunotherapy

JJ Meijer, A Leonetti, G Airò, M Tiseo, C Rolfo… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) arises in peribronchial locations and infiltrates the bronchial
submucosa, including about 15% of lung cancer cases. Despite decades of research, the …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of transcription factor programs and immune pathway activation define four major subtypes of SCLC with distinct therapeutic vulnerabilities

CM Gay, CA Stewart, EM Park, L Diao, SM Groves… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Despite molecular and clinical heterogeneity, small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is treated as a
single entity with predictably poor results. Using tumor expression data and non-negative …

Bax/Bcl-2 cascade is regulated by the EGFR pathway: therapeutic targeting of non-small cell lung cancer

M Alam, S Alam, A Shamsi, M Adnan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) comprises 80%–85% of lung cancer cases. EGFR
is involved in several cancer developments, including NSCLC. The EGFR pathway …