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ReviewClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2014

A RAS renaissance: emerging targeted therapies for KRAS-mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

Neil Vasan, Julie L Boyer, Roy S Herbst

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Review in Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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58citing papers in PubMed
10.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. TargetingJournal of immunotherapy and precision oncology · 2022
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  17. Mechanisms of Resistance to KRASCancer discovery · 2021
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  18. Diffuse expression of MUC6 defines a distinct clinicopathological subset of pulmonary invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2021
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  20. [Effects of farnesyltransferase silencing on the migration and invasion of tongue squamous cell carcinoma].Hua xi kou qiang yi xue za zhi = Huaxi kouqiang yixue zazhi = West China journal of stomatology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Neil VasanDepartment of Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;
Julie L BoyerThe Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; and.
Roy S HerbstYale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut roy.herbst@yale.edu.
Cornell University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USSmilow Cancer Hospital · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007205 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KAZMIERCZAK, BARBARA I · 1985 to 2019
$42.9M
Personalizing NSCLC Therapy: Exploiting KRAS activated pathwaysR01CA155196 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HERBST, ROY S, PAPADIMITRAKOPOULOU, VASSILIKI · 2011 to 2015
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA155196NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007205
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Of the numerous oncogenes implicated in human cancer, the most common and perhaps the most elusive to target pharmacologically is RAS. Since the discovery of RAS in the 1960s, numerous studies have elucidated the mechanism of activity, regulation, and intracellular trafficking of the RAS gene products, and of its regulatory pathways. These pathways yielded druggable targets, such as farnesyltransferase, during the 1980s to 1990s. Unfortunately, early clinical trials investigating farnesyltransferase inhibitors yielded disappointing results, and subsequent interest by pharmaceutical companies in targeting RAS waned. However, recent advances including the identification of novel regulatory enzymes (e.g., Rce1, Icmt, Pdeδ), siRNA-based synthetic lethality screens, and fragment-based small-molecule screens, have resulted in a "Ras renaissance," signified by new Ras and Ras pathway-targeted therapies that have led to new clinical trials of patients with Ras-driven cancers. This review gives an overview of KRas signaling pathways with an emphasis on novel targets and targeted therapies, using non-small cell lung cancer as a case example.

Indexed as

Molecular Targeted TherapyAntineoplastic AgentsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungHumansLung NeoplasmsMutationPrognosisProto-Oncogene ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)ras ProteinsSignal TransductionAntineoplastic AgentsKRAS protein, humanProto-Oncogene ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)ras Proteins

Identifiers

PMID24893629
PMCPMC5369356
OpenAlexW1982288880

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