Emerging advances in defining the molecular and therapeutic landscape of small-cell lung cancer

T Sen, N Takahashi, S Chakraborty, N Takebe… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) has traditionally been considered a recalcitrant cancer with a
dismal prognosis, with only modest advances in therapeutic strategies over the past several …

Killing SCLC: insights into how to target a shapeshifting tumor

KD Sutherland, AS Ireland, TG Oliver - Genes & Development, 2022 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a rapidly growing, highly metastatic, and relatively immune-
cold lung cancer subtype. Historically viewed in the laboratory and clinic as a single …

cfDNA methylome profiling for detection and subtyping of small cell lung cancers

F Chemi, SP Pearce, A Clipson, SM Hill, AM Conway… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is characterized by morphologic, epigenetic and
transcriptomic heterogeneity. Subtypes based upon predominant transcription factor …

Binary pan-cancer classes with distinct vulnerabilities defined by pro-or anti-cancer YAP/TEAD activity

JD Pearson, K Huang, M Pacal, SR McCurdy, S Lu… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer heterogeneity impacts therapeutic response, driving efforts to discover over-arching
rules that supersede variability. Here, we define pan-cancer binary classes based on distinct …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic targeting of ATR yields durable regressions in small cell lung cancers with high replication stress

A Thomas, N Takahashi, VN Rajapakse, X Zhang… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Small cell neuroendocrine cancers (SCNCs) are recalcitrant cancers arising from diverse
primary sites that lack effective treatments. Using chemical genetic screens, we identified …

Tumor-and circulating-free DNA methylation identifies clinically relevant small cell lung cancer subtypes

S Heeke, CM Gay, MR Estecio, H Tran, BB Morris… - Cancer cell, 2024 - cell.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy composed of distinct
transcriptional subtypes, but implementing subtyping in the clinic has remained challenging …

Heterogeneity of neuroendocrine transcriptional states in metastatic small cell lung cancers and patient-derived models

D Lissa, N Takahashi, P Desai, I Manukyan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular subtypes of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) defined by the expression of key
transcription regulators have recently been proposed in cell lines and limited number of …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular subtypes of primary SCLC tumors and their associations with neuroendocrine and therapeutic markers

S Qu, P Fetsch, A Thomas, Y Pommier… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction A new molecular subtype classification was recently proposed for SCLC. It is
necessary to validate it in primary SCLC tumors by immunohistochemical (IHC) staining and …

Proteogenomic characterization of small cell lung cancer identifies biological insights and subtype-specific therapeutic strategies

Q Liu, J Zhang, C Guo, M Wang, C Wang, Y Yan, L Sun… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
We performed comprehensive proteogenomic characterization of small cell lung cancer
(SCLC) using paired tumors and adjacent lung tissues from 112 treatment-naive patients …

Novel and highly potent ATR inhibitor M4344 kills cancer cells with replication stress, and enhances the chemotherapeutic activity of widely used DNA damaging …

U Jo, IS Senatorov, A Zimmermann, LK Saha… - Molecular cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Although several ATR inhibitors are in development, there are unresolved questions
regarding their differential potency, molecular signatures of patients with cancer for …