Independent drug action in combination therapy: implications for precision oncology

D Plana, AC Palmer, PK Sorger - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Combination therapies are superior to monotherapy for many cancers. This advantage was
historically ascribed to the ability of combinations to address tumor heterogeneity, but …

Drug independence and the curability of cancer by combination chemotherapy

AE Pomeroy, EV Schmidt, PK Sorger, AC Palmer - Trends in cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Combination chemotherapy can cure certain leukemias and lymphomas, but most solid
cancers are only curable at early stages. We review quantitative principles that explain the …

A subset of platinum-containing chemotherapeutic agents kills cells by inducing ribosome biogenesis stress

PM Bruno, Y Liu, GY Park, J Murai, CE Koch… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Cisplatin and its platinum analogs, carboplatin and oxaliplatin, are some of the most widely
used cancer chemotherapeutics. Although cisplatin and carboplatin are used primarily in …

Clinical management of breast cancer heterogeneity

D Zardavas, A Irrthum, C Swanton… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2015 - nature.com
Traditionally, intertumour heterogeneity in breast cancer has been documented in terms of
different histological subtypes, treatment sensitivity profiles, and clinical outcomes among …

Evolutionary determinants of cancer

M Greaves - Cancer discovery, 2015 - AACR
Our understanding of cancer is being transformed by exploring clonal diversity, drug
resistance, and causation within an evolutionary framework. The therapeutic resilience of …

Network pharmacology applications to map the unexplored target space and therapeutic potential of natural products

M Kibble, N Saarinen, J Tang, K Wennerberg… - Natural product …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2011 to 2014 It is widely accepted that drug discovery often requires a systems-
level polypharmacology approach to tackle problems such as lack of efficacy and emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Tumour heterogeneity and the evolution of polyclonal drug resistance

RA Burrell, C Swanton - Molecular oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
Cancer drug resistance is a major problem, with the majority of patients with metastatic
disease ultimately developing multidrug resistance and succumbing to their disease. Our …

The dynamic control of signal transduction networks in cancer cells

W Kolch, M Halasz, M Granovskaya… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Cancer is often considered a genetic disease. However, much of the enormous plasticity of
cancer cells to evolve different phenotypes, to adapt to challenging microenvironments and …

The extracellular matrix as a key regulator of intracellular signalling networks

JF Hastings, JN Skhinas, D Fey… - British journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a salient feature of all solid tissues within the body. This
complex, acellular entity is composed of hundreds of individual molecules whose assembly …

Computational models for predicting drug responses in cancer research

F Azuaje - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The computational prediction of drug responses based on the analysis of multiple types of
genome-wide molecular data is vital for accomplishing the promise of precision medicine in …