Guest-edited by: Prof. Min Li, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), USA
Dr. Yanis Boumber, Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
BMC Medicine and BMC Cancer jointly present the "Targeted Therapies for Cancer" Collection
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is lethal and possesses limited therapeutic options. Platinum-based chemotherapy—with or without immune checkpoint inhibitors (anti-PDs)—is the current first-line therapy for SCLC...
The Commentary to this article has been published in BMC Medicine 2021 19:295
Multi-omics studies have shown a high and lack of common driver mutations in most thymomas (TH) and thymic carcinomas (TC) that hamper the development of novel treatment approaches. However, deregulation of ap...
In the existing next generation sequencing (NGS) system, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 19 deletion-insertion (19delins) is still interpreted into the category of EGFR exon 19 deletion (19del). H...
The combination of bevacizumab and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) could prolong progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with EGFR-mutant advanced non-small-cell lung c...
With the identification of new targetable drivers and the recent emergence of novel targeted drugs, using comprehensive genomic profiling in lieu of the routine testing for classic drivers in the clinical care...
Significant improvements in mortality among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the USA over the past two decades have been reported based on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) ...
Clinical effectiveness and safety data of pazopanib in patients with advanced or mRCC in real-world setting from Asia Pacific, North Africa, and Middle East countries are lacking.
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ROS1-rearranged lung cancers benefit from first-line crizotinib therapy; however, clinical and molecular factors that could affect crizotinib efficacy in ROS1-rearranged lung cancers are not yet well-elucidated. ...
Treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) targeting CTLA-4 and the PD-1/PD-L1 axis is effective against many cancer types. However, due in part to unresponsiveness or acquired resistance, not all pati...
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) amplification occurs in approximately 13–23% of all GC cases and patients wi...
Because lenvatinib is well known to induce proteinuria by blocking the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway, renal function is a concern with long-term administration of lenvatinib. The long-term ...
Pralatrexate (PDX) is a novel antifolate approved for the treatment of patients with relapsed/refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma, but some patients exhibit intrinsic resistance or develop acquired resistanc...
This Phase 2a dose expansion study was performed to assess the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of the maximum tolerated dose of the oral histone de-acetylase (HDAC) inhibitor CXD101 in patients w...
Advanced stage marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) is an incurable indolent B-cell lymphoma, for which a wide variety of treatments ranging from single agent rituximab to more dose intense immunochemotherapy exists. ...
Availability of potent anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) has pushed the median survival of ALK+ non-smallcell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients to over five years. In particular, second...
The more selective second-generation BTK inhibitors (BTKi) Acalabrutinib and Zanubrutinib and the first-generation BTKi Ibrutinib are highlighted by their clinical effectiveness in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), ...
Prolactin receptor (PRLR) is an attractive antibody therapeutic target with expression across a broad population of breast cancers. Antibody efficacy, however, may be limited to subtypes with either PRLR overe...
Even though targeted therapies are available for cancers expressing oncogenic epidermal growth receptor (EGFR) and (or) human EGFR2 (HER2), acquired or intrinsic resistance often confounds therapy success. Com...
To compare the benefits and explore the cause of acquired resistance of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) and its combination with chemotherapy in advanced non-small-cell lu...
The chemotherapy triplet FOLFOXIRI combined to the anti-VEGF antibody bevacizumab is an option in selected patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. In this setting, RAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer ...
Osimertinib is a third generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that targets the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in lung cancer. However, although this molecule is not subject to some of the resistan...
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Dr. Min Li is Professor of Medicine, Surgery, and Cell Biology at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), and holds the George Lynn Cross Research Professorship and the Virginia Kerley Cade Endowed Chair in Cancer Treatment. He is the Assistant Dean for International Research Collaboration at College of Medicine, and Associate Director for Global Oncology at the NCI designated Stephenson Cancer Center (SCC). He is also Director of GI Cancer Research, and Vice Chair for Research at the Department of Surgery, and Co-Leader of Cancer Biology Program of SCC at OUHSC. He is a leading expert on pancreatic cancer (PC), and his research mainly focus on studying PC and brain tumor pathogenesis and developing new therapies. Dr. Li’s group is the first to identify a key zinc transporter ZIP4, which is aberrantly expressed in PC, and promotes cancer growth, cachexia, and metastasis. He has published more than 180 papers and has 3 active NIH R01 grants, and multiple private foundation grants.
Dr. Li is the council member of the International Association for Pancreatology (IAP), and councilor of the American Pancreatic Association (APA). He will be the President of APA in 2022. He received many awards such as the Outstanding Achievement Award of IAP, and the Provost Research Award. He is an Editorial Advisor for BMC Medicine.
Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, Section of Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology, at Northwestern University Cancer Center in Chicago. Dr. Boumber has previously worked as Assistant Professor in the Thoracic Section of the Department of Hematology/Oncology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA.
Dr Boumber graduated from the Rostov State Medical University, Russia and qualified as MD in 1999. He received his PhD in cancer biology and molecular biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston in 2005. He completed his medicine residency at Good Samaritan hospital, affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 2010, and medical oncology and hematology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2013.
His research interests include the investigation of signaling pathways and biological processes controlled by MSI2 and developing novel therapeutic approaches to target MSI2 in lung cancer. He joined the editorial board of BMC Cancer in 2016 as Deputy Section Editor. He serves as Senior Board Member since August 2020.
Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer, which has led to the development of molecular targeted agents including tyrosine kinase inhibitors, antiangiogenic agents, cell cycle and signalling targeting compounds, PARP inhibitors, DNA methylation inhibitors and antibody-drug conjugates. For many cancers including leukaemia, melanoma, lung, colorectal and breast cancer, targeted therapies have transformed the repertoire of currently available treatments, such as Vemurafenib for BRAF mutated metastatic melanoma and Herceptin for HER2 overexpressing breast cancer. Yet, the responses to targeted therapies are only marginal and short-lived, since many cancers develop resistance leading to disease progression, in addition to patients experiencing toxic side effects and financial burdens associated with treatment.
To overcome the problems associated with tumour resistance, research is focused on developing combination strategies involving targeted therapies and next-generation inhibitors with enhanced efficacy and selectivity. At the same time, molecular approaches are warranted to identify biomarkers and select the most suitable patients to optimise benefit and minimise toxicity.
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