Targeting replication stress in cancer therapy

AABA da Costa, D Chowdhury, GI Shapiro… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Replication stress is a major cause of genomic instability and a crucial vulnerability of
cancer cells. This vulnerability can be therapeutically targeted by inhibiting kinases that …

Taxanes in cancer treatment: Activity, chemoresistance and its overcoming

L Mosca, A Ilari, F Fazi, YG Assaraf, G Colotti - Drug Resistance Updates, 2021 - Elsevier
Since 1984, when paclitaxel was approved by the FDA for the treatment of advanced
ovarian carcinoma, taxanes have been widely used as microtubule-targeting antitumor …

Phase II study of the WEE1 inhibitor adavosertib in recurrent uterine serous carcinoma

JF Liu, N Xiong, SM Campos, AA Wright… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Uterine serous carcinoma (USC) is a distinct histologic subtype of endometrial
cancer, with molecular characteristics suggesting frequent cell-cycle dysregulation paired …

Drugs targeting p53 mutations with FDA approval and in clinical trials

S Nishikawa, T Iwakuma - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 (p53) occur in~ 50% of human
cancers, the majority of which are missense mutations. Mutations in p53 not only impair the …

Translating p53-based therapies for cancer into the clinic

S Peuget, X Zhou, G Selivanova - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Inactivation of the most important tumour suppressor gene TP53 occurs in most, if not all,
human cancers. Loss of functional wild-type p53 is achieved via two main mechanisms …

Adavosertib plus gemcitabine for platinum-resistant or platinum-refractory recurrent ovarian cancer: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial

S Lheureux, MC Cristea, JP Bruce, S Garg… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The Wee1 (WEE1hu) inhibitor adavosertib and gemcitabine have
shown preclinical synergy and promising activity in early phase clinical trials. We aimed to …

Multicenter Phase II Trial of the WEE1 Inhibitor Adavosertib in Refractory Solid Tumors Harboring CCNE1 Amplification

S Fu, S Yao, Y Yuan, RA Previs, AD Elias… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Preclinical cancer models harboring CCNE1 amplification were more sensitive to
adavosertib treatment, a WEE1 kinase inhibitor, than models without amplification. Thus, we …

WEE1 inhibitor: clinical development

A Kong, H Mehanna - Current oncology reports, 2021 - Springer
Purpose of Review WEE1 inhibitor has been shown to potential chemotherapy or
radiotherapy sensitivity in preclinical models, particularly in p53-mutated or deficient cancer …

Overcoming PARPi resistance: Preclinical and clinical evidence in ovarian cancer

M Chiappa, F Guffanti, F Bertoni, I Colombo… - Drug Resistance …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ovarian cancer is the fifth cause of cancer-related deaths in women with high grade serous
carcinoma (HGSOC) representing the most common histological subtype. Approximately …

Therapeutic targeting of DNA damage response in cancer

W Choi, ES Lee - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA damage response (DDR) is critical to ensure genome stability, and defects in this
signaling pathway are highly associated with carcinogenesis and tumor progression …