DNA damage repair: historical perspectives, mechanistic pathways and clinical translation for targeted cancer therapy

R Huang, PK Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic instability is the hallmark of various cancers with the increasing accumulation of
DNA damage. The application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer treatment is …

PARP inhibitors: clinical relevance, mechanisms of action and tumor resistance

M Rose, JT Burgess, K O'Byrne, DJ Richard… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) family has many essential functions in cellular
processes, including the regulation of transcription, apoptosis and the DNA damage …

Emerging strategies for the treatment of small cell lung cancer: a review

WJ Petty, L Paz-Ares - JAMA oncology, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive disease that is characterized by
rapid growth and the early development of metastases. Patients typically respond to initial …

PARP inhibitors: enhancing efficacy through rational combinations

D Bhamidipati, JI Haro-Silerio, TA Yap… - British journal of cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) have significantly changed the treatment
landscape for tumours harbouring defects in genes involved in homologous repair (HR) …

[HTML][HTML] MYC drives temporal evolution of small cell lung cancer subtypes by reprogramming neuroendocrine fate

AS Ireland, AM Micinski, DW Kastner, B Guo, SJ Wait… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a neuroendocrine tumor treated clinically as a single
disease with poor outcomes. Distinct SCLC molecular subtypes have been defined based …

Extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer: first-line and second-line treatment options

J Zugazagoitia, L Paz-Ares - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2022 - ascopubs.org
Extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer is a therapeutically challenging disease. After more
than two decades without clinical progress, the addition of programmed cell death protein 1 …

Single-cell analyses reveal increased intratumoral heterogeneity after the onset of therapy resistance in small-cell lung cancer

CA Stewart, CM Gay, Y **, S Sivajothi… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
The natural history of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) includes rapid evolution from
chemosensitivity to chemoresistance, although mechanisms underlying this evolution …

DNA repair pathways in cancer therapy and resistance

L Li, Y Guan, X Chen, J Yang, Y Cheng - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
DNA repair pathways are triggered to maintain genetic stability and integrity when
mammalian cells are exposed to endogenous or exogenous DNA-damaging agents. 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic targeting of ATR yields durable regressions in small cell lung cancers with high replication stress

A Thomas, N Takahashi, VN Rajapakse, X Zhang… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Small cell neuroendocrine cancers (SCNCs) are recalcitrant cancers arising from diverse
primary sites that lack effective treatments. Using chemical genetic screens, we identified …