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 …

ALK-positive lung cancer: a moving target

JL Schneider, JJ Lin, AT Shaw - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a potent oncogenic driver in lung cancer. ALK tyrosine
kinase inhibitors yield significant benefit in patients with ALK fusion-positive (ALK+) lung …

Brigatinib versus Crizotinib in ALK-Positive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

DR Camidge, HR Kim, MJ Ahn, JCH Yang… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Brigatinib, a next-generation anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor, has
robust efficacy in patients with ALK-positive non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that is …

Kinase inhibitors: the road ahead

FM Ferguson, NS Gray - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Receptor tyrosine kinase signalling pathways have been successfully targeted to inhibit
proliferation and angiogenesis for cancer therapy. However, kinase deregulation has been …

Brigatinib versus crizotinib in advanced ALK inhibitor–naive ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer: second interim analysis of the phase III ALTA-1L trial

DR Camidge, HR Kim, MJ Ahn, JCH Yang… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Brigatinib, a next-generation anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor,
demonstrated superior progression-free survival (PFS) and improved health-related quality …

Understanding and targeting resistance mechanisms in NSCLC

J Rotow, TG Bivona - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The expanding spectrum of both established and candidate oncogenic driver mutations
identified in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), coupled with the increasing number of …

Non–small cell lung cancer, version 5.2017, NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology

DS Ettinger, DE Wood, DL Aisner, W Akerley… - Journal of the National …, 2017 - jnccn.org
This selection from the NCCN Guidelines for Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
focuses on targeted therapies and immunotherapies for metastatic NSCLC, because …

ALK Resistance Mutations and Efficacy of Lorlatinib in Advanced Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase-Positive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

AT Shaw, BJ Solomon, B Besse, TM Bauer… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Lorlatinib is a potent, brain-penetrant, third-generation anaplastic lymphoma
kinase (ALK)/ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) with robust clinical activity in advanced …

Targeting ALK: precision medicine takes on drug resistance

JJ Lin, GJ Riely, AT Shaw - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a validated molecular target in several ALK-
rearranged malignancies, including non–small cell lung cancer. However, the clinical …

Targeted protein degradation by PROTACs

TK Neklesa, JD Winkler, CM Crews - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2017 - Elsevier
Targeted protein degradation using the PROTAC technology is emerging as a novel
therapeutic method to address diseases driven by the aberrant expression of a disease …