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 …

Protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance in malignant tumors: molecular mechanisms and future perspective

Y Yang, S Li, Y Wang, Y Zhao, Q Li - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) are a class of proteins with tyrosine kinase activity that
phosphorylate tyrosine residues of critical molecules in signaling pathways. Their basal …

[HTML][HTML] Advances and challenges in the treatment of lung cancer

Y Li, B Yan, S He - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Lung cancer accounts for a relatively high proportion of malignant tumors. As the most
prevalent type of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is characterized by high …

The resistance mechanisms and treatment strategies for ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer

Y Pan, C Deng, Z Qiu, C Cao, F Wu - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a validated molecular target for non-small-cell lung
cancer (NSCLC). The use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) has led to significantly …

[HTML][HTML] Going beneath the tip of the iceberg. Identifying and understanding EML4-ALK variants and TP53 mutations to optimize treatment of ALK fusion positive (ALK+ …

SS Zhang, M Nagasaka, VW Zhu, SHI Ou - Lung Cancer, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 (EML4) and
anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene fusion in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) …

Fusion‐positive non‐small cell lung carcinoma: biological principles, clinical practice, and diagnostic implications

D Kazdal, V Hofman, P Christopoulos… - Genes …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Based on superior efficacy and tolerability, targeted therapy is currently preferred over
chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy for actionable gene fusions that occur in late‐stage …

Review of therapeutic strategies for anaplastic lymphoma kinase-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer

T Fukui, M Tachihara, T Nagano, K Kobayashi - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC) was first reported in 2007. Following the development of crizotinib as a tyrosine …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted therapies in non-small cell lung cancer: present and future

J McLaughlin, J Berkman, P Nana-Sinkam - Faculty Reviews, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lung cancer is the leading cause of malignancy-related death in the United States and the
second most common cancer diagnosis worldwide. In the last two decades, lung cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy of Lorlatinib in treatment-naive patients with ALK-positive advanced NSCLC in relation to EML4:: ALK variant type and ALK with or without TP53 …

A Bearz, JF Martini, J Jassem, SW Kim… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Lorlatinib, a third-generation ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor, improved outcomes
compared with crizotinib in patients with previously untreated ALK-positive advanced …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic landscape and prognosis of patients with TP53-mutated non-small cell lung cancer

Z Fan, Q Zhang, L Feng, L Wang, X Zhou… - Annals of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The TP53 tumor suppressor gene plays an important role in preventing and
inhibiting the growth of tumor by regulating cell cycle, apoptosis and DNA repair. Meanwhile …