ALK-positive lung cancer: a moving target

JL Schneider, JJ Lin, AT Shaw - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a potent oncogenic driver in lung cancer. ALK tyrosine
kinase inhibitors yield significant benefit in patients with ALK fusion-positive (ALK+) lung …

Nanomedicine combats drug resistance in lung cancer

X Zheng, X Song, G Zhu, D Pan, H Li, J Hu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lung cancer is the second most prevalent cancer and the leading cause of cancer‐related
death worldwide. Surgery, chemotherapy, molecular targeted therapy, immunotherapy, and …

Circulating tumor DNA reveals mechanisms of lorlatinib resistance in patients with relapsed/refractory ALK-driven neuroblastoma

ER Berko, GM Witek, S Matkar, ZO Petrova… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Activating point mutations in Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) have positioned ALK as
the only mutated oncogene tractable for targeted therapy in neuroblastoma. Cells with these …

NVL-520 is a selective, TRK-sparing, and brain-penetrant inhibitor of ROS1 fusions and secondary resistance mutations

A Drilon, JC Horan, A Tangpeerachaikul, B Besse… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) have been approved (crizotinib and entrectinib) or
explored (lorlatinib, taletrectinib, and repotrectinib) for the treatment of ROS1 fusion–positive …

NVL-655 Is a Selective and Brain-Penetrant Inhibitor of Diverse ALK-Mutant Oncoproteins, Including Lorlatinib-Resistant Compound Mutations

JJ Lin, JC Horan, A Tangpeerachaikul… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Three generations of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) have been approved for anaplastic
lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer. However, none address …

Anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitors—a review of anticancer properties, clinical efficacy, and resistance mechanisms

K Kiełbowski, J Żychowska, R Becht - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Fusions and mutations of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), a tyrosine kinase receptor,
have been identified in several neoplastic diseases. Rearranged ALK is a driver of …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy and Tolerability of ALK/MET combinations in patients with ALK-rearranged lung cancer with acquired MET amplification: a retrospective analysis

I Dagogo-Jack, LA Kiedrowski, RS Heist, JJ Lin… - JTO Clinical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction MET amplification is a potentially actionable resistance mechanism in ALK-
rearranged (ALK+) lung cancer. Studies describing treatment outcomes of this molecular …

From Development to Place in Therapy of Lorlatinib for the Treatment of ALK and ROS1 Rearranged Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

L Fabbri, A Di Federico, M Astore, V Marchiori… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Following the results of the CROWN phase III trial, the third-generation macrocyclic ALK
inhibitor lorlatinib has been introduced as a salvage option after the failure of a first-line TKI …

[HTML][HTML] Biology and impact of lineage plasticity in ALK-positive NSCLC: a narrative review

CB Meador, Z Piotrowska - Translational Lung Cancer Research, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We performed a narrative review by searching the PubMed and clinicaltrials. gov
databases for articles published in English from August, 2007 until October, 2022 and …

[HTML][HTML] ALK inhibitors in cancer: mechanisms of resistance and therapeutic management strategies

D Poei, S Ali, S Ye, R Hsu - Cancer Drug Resistance, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements have been identified as potent
oncogenic drivers in several malignancies, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) …