Rational combinations of targeted cancer therapies: background, advances and challenges

H Jin, L Wang, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, elucidation of the genetic defects that underlie cancer has
resulted in a plethora of novel targeted cancer drugs. Although these agents can initially be …

Combination strategies with PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: current advances and future directions

M Yi, X Zheng, M Niu, S Zhu, H Ge, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Antibodies targeting programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) or its ligand PD-L1 rescue T
cells from exhausted status and revive immune response against cancer cells. Based on the …

Systemic therapy for hormone receptor‐positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2‐negative early stage and metastatic breast cancer

LA Huppert, O Gumusay, D Idossa… - CA: a cancer journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hormone receptor (HR)‐positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)‐
negative breast cancer is defined by the presence of the estrogen receptor and/or the …

Targeting CDK4 and CDK6 in cancer

S Goel, JS Bergholz, JJ Zhao - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) and CDK6 are critical mediators of cellular
transition into S phase and are important for the initiation, growth and survival of many …

[HTML][HTML] Turning cold tumors into hot tumors by improving T-cell infiltration

YT Liu, ZJ Sun - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy, represented by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), has greatly improved
the clinical efficacy of malignant tumor therapy. ICI-mediated antitumor responses depend …

Fecal microbiota transplant promotes response in immunotherapy-refractory melanoma patients

EN Baruch, I Youngster, G Ben-Betzalel, R Ortenberg… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The gut microbiome has been shown to influence the response of tumors to anti–PD-1
(programmed cell death–1) immunotherapy in preclinical mouse models and observational …

[HTML][HTML] CDK inhibitors in cancer therapy, an overview of recent development

M Zhang, L Zhang, R Hei, X Li, H Cai… - American journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dysregulated cell division, which leads to aberrant cell proliferation, is one of the key
hallmarks of cancer. Therefore, therapeutic targets that block cell division would be effective …

Cell cycle on the crossroad of tumorigenesis and cancer therapy

J Liu, Y Peng, W Wei - Trends in cell biology, 2022 - cell.com
Aberrancy in cell cycle progression is one of the fundamental mechanisms underlying
tumorigenesis, making regulators of the cell cycle machinery rational anticancer therapeutic …

Turning cold into hot: firing up the tumor microenvironment

Q Duan, H Zhang, J Zheng, L Zhang - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Cancers develop within complex tissue environments consisting of diverse innate and
adaptive immune cells, along with stromal cells, vascular networks, and many other cellular …

Tumour-intrinsic resistance to immune checkpoint blockade

A Kalbasi, A Ribas - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 'Immune checkpoint blockade'for cancer describes the use of therapeutic antibodies
that disrupt negative immune regulatory checkpoints and unleash pre-existing antitumour …