Overcoming endocrine resistance in breast cancer

AB Hanker, DR Sudhan, CL Arteaga - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer is the most common breast cancer subtype.
Treatment of ER+ breast cancer comprises interventions that suppress estrogen production …

Application of cell-free DNA analysis to cancer treatment

RB Corcoran, BA Chabner - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Emerging Roles of Cell-free Tumor DNA in Oncology The capacity to detect new cancers,
treatment-resistant variants, and tumor heterogeneity by noninvasive technology on the …

Combined PD-1, BRAF and MEK inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal cancer: a phase 2 trial

J Tian, JH Chen, SX Chao, K Pelka, M Giannakis… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
While BRAF inhibitor combinations with EGFR and/or MEK inhibitors have improved clinical
efficacy in BRAFV600E colorectal cancer (CRC), response rates remain low and lack …

Liquid versus tissue biopsy for detecting acquired resistance and tumor heterogeneity in gastrointestinal cancers

AR Parikh, I Leshchiner, L Elagina, L Goyal… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
During cancer therapy, tumor heterogeneity can drive the evolution of multiple tumor
subclones harboring unique resistance mechanisms in an individual patient,–. Previous …

Targeting alterations in the RAF–MEK pathway

R Yaeger, RB Corcoran - Cancer discovery, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
The MAPK pathway is one of the most commonly mutated oncogenic pathways in cancer.
Although RAS mutations are the most frequent MAPK alterations, less frequent alterations in …

Combined BRAF, EGFR, and MEK Inhibition in Patients with BRAFV600E-Mutant Colorectal Cancer

RB Corcoran, T André, CE Atreya… - Cancer …, 2018 - aacrjournals.org
Although BRAF inhibitor monotherapy yields response rates> 50% in BRAF V600-mutant
melanoma, only approximately 5% of patients with BRAF V600E colorectal cancer respond …

TAS-120 overcomes resistance to ATP-competitive FGFR inhibitors in patients with FGFR2 fusion–positive intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

L Goyal, L Shi, LY Liu, F Fece de la Cruz… - Cancer …, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
ATP-competitive fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) kinase inhibitors, including
BGJ398 and Debio 1347, show antitumor activity in patients with intrahepatic …

KRASG12C-independent feedback activation of wild-type RAS constrains KRASG12C inhibitor efficacy

MB Ryan, O Coker, A Sorokin, K Fella, H Barnes… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Although KRAS has long been considered undruggable, direct KRAS G12C inhibitors have
shown promising initial clinical efficacy. However, the majority of patients still fail to respond …

Biomarker-guided therapy for colorectal cancer: strength in complexity

A Sveen, S Kopetz, RA Lothe - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2020 - nature.com
The number of molecularly stratified treatment options available to patients with colorectal
cancer (CRC) is increasing, with a parallel rise in the use of biomarkers to guide …

Therapeutic strategies to target RAS-mutant cancers

MB Ryan, RB Corcoran - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018 - nature.com
RAS genes are the most commonly mutated oncogenes in cancer, but effective therapeutic
strategies to target RAS-mutant cancers have proved elusive. A key aspect of this challenge …