Cancer therapy guided by mutation tests: current status and perspectives

SN Aleksakhina, EN Imyanitov - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The administration of many cancer drugs is tailored to genetic tests. Some genomic events,
eg, alterations of EGFR or BRAF oncogenes, result in the conformational change of the …

Fusion challenges in solid tumors: shaping the landscape of cancer care in precision medicine

J Ahmed, C Torrado, A Chelariu, SH Kim… - JCO precision …, 2024 - ascopubs.org
Targeting actionable fusions has emerged as a promising approach to cancer treatment.
Next-generation sequencing (NGS)–based techniques have unveiled the landscape of …

Prevalence and clinico-genomic characteristics of patients with TRK fusion cancer in China

Y Xu, X Shi, W Wang, L Zhang, S Cheung… - NPJ Precision …, 2023 - nature.com
Neurotrophic tyrosine kinase (NTRK) fusions involving NTRK1, NTRK2, and NTRK3 were
found in a broad range of solid tumors as driver gene variants. However, the prevalence of …

The significance of tissue-agnostic biomarkers in solid tumors: the more the merrier?

V Gristina, P Pisapia, N Barraco, F Pepe… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction To date, several emerging biomarkers have gained considerable interest in the
field of predictive molecular oncology. The advent of precision medicine has led to the …

[HTML][HTML] NTRK gene fusions in solid tumors: agnostic relevance, prevalence and diagnostic strategies

A Marchetti, B Ferro, MP Pasciuto, C Zampacorta… - Pathologica, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A number of innovative drugs, developed for precision medicine, have shown impressive
activity in neoplastic patients with rare molecular targets, independently from the site and …

Impact of tissue-agnostic approvals for patients with sarcoma

RC Pestana, JR Beal, A Parkes, N Hamerschlak… - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Tissue-agnostic drug development is a major step forward in offering treatment options for
rare tumors. Sarcomas are heterogeneous rare malignancies with more than 100 subtypes …

EML4–NTRK3 fusion cervical sarcoma: a case report and literature review

X Dang, T Xiang, C Zhao, H Tang, P Cui - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The concept of neurotrophic factor tyrosine kinase receptor (NTRK) fusion tumor has
emerged in recent years. Moreover, NTRK fusion is unusual in common tumors but can often …

NTRK-fusion sarcoma of the uterine cervix: report of 2 cases with comparative clinicopathologic features

N Nilforoushan, SL Wethington… - International Journal …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Abstract NTRK1/2/3 rearrangements have been identified as oncogenic drivers in a variety
of tumors including those in the uterine cervix, and rarely, the uterine corpus. We report 2 …

Basket Trials: Past, Present, and Future

YR Murciano-Goroff, M Uppal, M Chen… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Large-scale tumor molecular profiling has revealed that diverse cancer histologies are
driven by common pathways with unifying biomarkers that can be exploited therapeutically …

Cardiac tumors

CJT Karigyo, BMS Pessoa, SP Nicacio… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Cardiac tumors are rare and encompass a variety of presentations. Clinica symptoms are
usually nonspecific, but they can present as obstructive, embolic, or constitutional symptoms …