Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents approximately 10% of all cancers and is the second
most common cause of cancer deaths. Initial clinical presentation as metastatic CRC …

Abstract The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has always been a
forerunner in drug evaluation and supervision. Over the past 31 years, 1050 drugs …

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) have an incidence of~ 1.2 per 105 individuals per
year in most countries. Around 80% of GIST have varying molecular changes, predominantly …

The central role of dysregulated kinase activity in the etiology of progressive disorders,
including cancer, has fostered incremental efforts on drug discovery programs over the past …

The identification of molecular targets and the growing knowledge of their cellular functions
have led to the development of small molecule inhibitors as a major therapeutic class for …

Background The selective TRK inhibitor larotrectinib was approved for paediatric and adult
patients with advanced TRK fusion-positive solid tumours based on a primary analysis set of …

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related mortality
worldwide.(1, 2) This neoplasm has some unique characteristics. It occurs in most cases …

The first wave of genetically targeted therapies for cancer focused on drugging gene
products that are recurrently mutated in specific cancer types. However, mutational analysis …

In the era of precision medicine, it has been increasingly recognized that individuals with a
certain disease are complex and different from each other. Due to the underestimation of the …

Precision medicine focuses on DNA abnormalities, but not all tumors have tractable
genomic alterations. The WINTHER trial (NCT01856296) navigated patients to therapy on …