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 …

MET-dependent solid tumours—molecular diagnosis and targeted therapy

R Guo, J Luo, J Chang, N Rekhtman, M Arcila… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Attempts to develop MET-targeted therapies have historically focused on MET-expressing
cancers, with limited success. Thus, MET expression in the absence of a genomic marker of …

Targeting MET Dysregulation in Cancer

G Recondo, J Che, PA Jänne, MM Awad - Cancer discovery, 2020 - aacrjournals.org
Aberrant MET signaling can drive tumorigenesis in several cancer types through a variety of
molecular mechanisms including MET gene amplification, mutation, rearrangement, and …

Receptor tyrosine kinases: Biological functions and anticancer targeted therapy

N Zhang, Y Li - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are a class of protein kinases that play crucial roles in
various cellular processes, including cell migration, morphological differentiation, cell …

Targeting MET: Discovery of small molecule inhibitors as non-small cell lung cancer therapy

C Wang, X Lu - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
MET has been considered as a promising drug target for the treatment of MET-dependent
diseases, particularly non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Small molecule MET inhibitors …

Capmatinib (INC280) is active against models of non–small cell lung cancer and other cancer types with defined mechanisms of MET activation

S Baltschukat, BS Engstler, A Huang… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: The selective MET inhibitor capmatinib is being investigated in multiple clinical
trials, both as a single agent and in combination. Here, we describe the preclinical data of …

Safety and efficacy of crizotinib in patients with advanced or metastatic ROS1-rearranged lung cancer (EUCROSS): a European phase II clinical trial

S Michels, B Massutí, HU Schildhaus, J Franklin… - Journal of thoracic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction ROS1 rearrangements are found in 1% of lung cancer patients. Therapeutic
efficacy of crizotinib in this subset has been shown in early phase trials in the United States …

RET rearrangements are actionable alterations in breast cancer

BS Paratala, JH Chung, CB Williams, B Yilmazel… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Fusions involving the oncogenic gene RET have been observed in thyroid and lung
cancers. Here we report RET gene alterations, including amplification, missense mutations …

A narrative review of MET inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer with MET exon 14 skip** mutations

M Santarpia, M Massafra, V Gebbia… - Translational lung …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has radically improved in the
last years due to development and clinical approval of highly effective agents including …

The development of amivantamab for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer

D Brazel, M Nagasaka - Respiratory Research, 2023 - Springer
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with sensitizing oncogenic driver mutations
benefit from targeted therapies. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are highly effective against classic …