Multi-stage mechanisms of tumor metastasis and therapeutic strategies

Z Liu, J Chen, Y Ren, S Liu, Y Ba, A Zuo… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The cascade of metastasis in tumor cells, exhibiting organ-specific tendencies, may occur at
numerous phases of the disease and progress under intense evolutionary pressures. Organ …

BRAF—A tumour-agnostic drug target with lineage-specific dependencies

AJ Hanrahan, Z Chen, N Rosen, DB Solit - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2024 - nature.com
In June 2022, the FDA granted Accelerated Approval to the BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib in
combination with the MEK inhibitor trametinib for the treatment of adult and paediatric …

Molecular profiling of BRAF-V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer in the phase 3 BEACON CRC trial

S Kopetz, DA Murphy, J Pu, F Ciardiello, J Desai… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The BEACON CRC study demonstrated that encorafenib (Enco)+ cetuximab
(Cetux)±binimetinib (Bini) significantly improved overall survival (OS) versus Cetux+ …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmatic BRAF-V600E allele fraction as a prognostic factor in metastatic colorectal cancer treated with BRAF combinatorial treatments

J Ros, J Matito, G Villacampa, R Comas, A Garcia… - Annals of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Combination of a BRAF inhibitor (BRAFi) and an anti-epidermal growth factor
receptor (EGFR), with or without a MEK inhibitor (MEKi), improves survival in BRAF-V600E …

Scalable and efficient DNA sequencing analysis on different compute infrastructures aiding variant discovery

F Hanssen, MU Garcia, L Folkersen… - NAR Genomics and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
DNA variation analysis has become indispensable in many aspects of modern biomedicine,
most prominently in the comparison of normal and tumor samples. Thousands of samples …

Treatment of BRAF-V600E mutant metastatic colorectal cancer: new insights and biomarkers

J Ros, M Rodríguez-Castells, N Saoudi… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The presence of a BRAF-V600E mutation in metastatic colorectal cancer
(mCRC) is observed in approximately 12% of cases and is associated with poor prognosis …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring tumour resistance to the BRAF inhibitor combination regimen in colorectal cancer patients via circulating tumour DNA

LF Ye, ZY Huang, XX Chen, ZG Chen, SX Wu… - Drug Resistance …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aims This study aimed to identify mechanisms of drug resistance to the combination of
vemurafenib, irinotecan, and cetuximab (VIC) in BRAF V600E metastatic colorectal cancer …

[HTML][HTML] European expert panel consensus on the clinical management of BRAFV600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer

E Martinelli, D Arnold, A Cervantes, S Stintzing… - Cancer Treatment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is a heterogenous disease caused by various genetic
alterations. The BRAF V600E mutation occurs in approximately 8–12% of patients and is …

Liquid biopsy in colorectal cancer: Onward and upward

S Torresan, M de Scordilli, M Bortolot… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In
recent years, liquid biopsy has emerged as one of the most interesting areas of research in …

Gain-of-function mutations in the catalytic domain of DOT1L promote lung cancer malignant phenotypes via the MAPK/ERK signaling pathway

J Zhang, T Yang, M Han, X Wang, W Yang, N Guo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Lung cancer is a lethal malignancy lacking effective therapies. Emerging evidence suggests
that epigenetic enzyme mutations are closely related to the malignant phenotype of lung …