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 …

Third-generation EGFR and ALK inhibitors: mechanisms of resistance and management

AJ Cooper, LV Sequist, JJ Lin - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
The discoveries of EGFR mutations and ALK rearrangements as actionable oncogenic
drivers in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has propelled a biomarker-directed treatment …

Tumour heterogeneity and resistance to cancer therapies

I Dagogo-Jack, AT Shaw - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer is a dynamic disease. During the course of disease, cancers generally become more
heterogeneous. As a result of this heterogeneity, the bulk tumour might include a diverse …

Cancer cell plasticity during tumor progression, metastasis and response to therapy

A Pérez-González, K Bévant, C Blanpain - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cell plasticity represents the ability of cells to be reprogrammed and to change their fate and
identity, enabling homeostasis restoration and tissue regeneration following damage. Cell …

Resistance mechanisms to osimertinib in EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer

A Leonetti, S Sharma, R Minari, P Perego… - British journal of …, 2019 - nature.com
Osimertinib is an irreversible, third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)
tyrosine kinase inhibitor that is highly selective for EGFR-activating mutations as well as the …

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 …

Molecular subtypes of small cell lung cancer: a synthesis of human and mouse model data

CM Rudin, JT Poirier, LA Byers, C Dive… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an exceptionally lethal malignancy for which more effective
therapies are urgently needed. Several lines of evidence, from SCLC primary human …

Co-occurring genomic alterations in non-small-cell lung cancer biology and therapy

F Skoulidis, JV Heymach - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
The impressive clinical activity of small-molecule receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors for
oncogene-addicted subgroups of non-small-cell lung cancer (for example, those driven by …

Overcoming therapy resistance in EGFR-mutant lung cancer

A Passaro, PA Jänne, T Mok, S Peters - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have dramatically changed the clinical prospects of patients
with non-small cell lung cancer harboring epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) …

The great escape: tumour cell plasticity in resistance to targeted therapy

S Boumahdi, FJ de Sauvage - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
The success of targeted therapies in cancer treatment has been impeded by various
mechanisms of resistance. Besides the acquisition of resistance-conferring genetic …