Independent drug action in combination therapy: implications for precision oncology

D Plana, AC Palmer, PK Sorger - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Combination therapies are superior to monotherapy for many cancers. This advantage was
historically ascribed to the ability of combinations to address tumor heterogeneity, but …

[HTML][HTML] Functional precision oncology: testing tumors with drugs to identify vulnerabilities and novel combinations

A Letai, P Bhola, AL Welm - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Functional precision medicine is a strategy whereby live tumor cells from affected individuals
are directly perturbed with drugs to provide immediately translatable, personalized …

Drug independence and the curability of cancer by combination chemotherapy

AE Pomeroy, EV Schmidt, PK Sorger, AC Palmer - Trends in cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Combination chemotherapy can cure certain leukemias and lymphomas, but most solid
cancers are only curable at early stages. We review quantitative principles that explain the …

[HTML][HTML] Microenvironment drives cell state, plasticity, and drug response in pancreatic cancer

S Raghavan, PS Winter, AW Navia, HL Williams… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Prognostically relevant RNA expression states exist in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
(PDAC), but our understanding of their drivers, stability, and relationship to therapeutic …

DrugComb update: a more comprehensive drug sensitivity data repository and analysis portal

S Zheng, J Aldahdooh, T Shadbahr… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Combinatorial therapies that target multiple pathways have shown great promises for
treating complex diseases. DrugComb (https://drugcomb. org/) is a web-based portal for the …

Treatment resistance in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

MY He, R Kridel - Leukemia, 2021 - nature.com
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a highly heterogeneous disease and represents
the most common subtype of lymphoma. Although 60–70% of all patients can be cured by …

Predictable clinical benefits without evidence of synergy in trials of combination therapies with immune-checkpoint inhibitors

AC Palmer, B Izar, H Hwangbo, PK Sorger - Clinical Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: Combinations of immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) with other cancer therapies
have been approved for advanced cancers in multiple indications, and numerous trials are …

CDH17 nanobodies facilitate rapid imaging of gastric cancer and efficient delivery of immunotoxin

J Ma, X Xu, C Fu, P Xia, M Tian, L Zheng… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - spj.science.org
Background It is highly desirable to develop new therapeutic strategies for gastric cancer
given the low survival rate despite improvement in the past decades. Cadherin 17 (CDH17) …

Programming tumor evolution with selection gene drives to proactively combat drug resistance

SM Leighow, JA Reynolds, I Sokirniy, S Yao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Most targeted anticancer therapies fail due to drug resistance evolution. Here we show that
tumor evolution can be reproducibly redirected to engineer therapeutic opportunity …

Sustained activation of non-canonical NF-κB signalling drives glycolytic reprogramming in doxorubicin-resistant DLBCL

SK Lim, CC Peng, S Low, V Vijay, A Budiman… - Leukemia, 2023 - nature.com
DLBCL is the most common lymphoma with high tumor heterogeneity. Treatment
refractoriness and relapse from R-CHOP therapy in patients remain a clinical problem …