Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28992434›Full record

ReviewAnnual review of pharmacology and toxicology2018

Targeting Epigenetics in Cancer.

Richard L Bennett, Jonathan D Licht

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
127citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
10.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

127 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 249 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Targeting MYC-Driven Cancers: From Oncogenic Addiction to Therapeutic Vulnerability.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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  9. Discovery of a selective and reversible LSD1 inhibitor with potent anticancer effectsJournal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  11. UTERINE FIBROIDS.Physiological reviews · 2025
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  13. The role of epigenetics in cancer: From pathways to the clinic.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025
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67 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard L BennettDivision of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32606, USA; email: jdlicht@ufl.edu.
Jonathan D LichtDivision of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32606, USA; email: jdlicht@ufl.edu.
UF Health Cancer Center

Funding

Spatio-Temporal Organization of Chromatin and Information Transfer in CancerU54CA193419 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MARKO, JOHN F · 2015 to 2020
$10.4M
UTX, MLL AND PATHOGENIC DEREGULATION OF HISTONE METHYLATION IN MULTIPLE MYELOMAR01CA180475 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI LICHT, JONATHAN D. · 2014 to 2020
$1.8M
The Role of MMSET in the Pathogenesis and Progression of Lymphoid MalignancyR01CA195732 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI LICHT, JONATHAN D. · 2016 to 2020
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA180475NCI NIH HHS R01 CA195732NCI NIH HHS U54 CA193419
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alterations of genes regulating epigenetic processes are frequently found as cancer drivers and may cause widespread alterations of DNA methylation, histone modification patterns, or chromatin structure that disrupt normal patterns of gene expression. Because of the inherent reversibility of epigenetic changes, inhibitors targeting these processes are promising anticancer strategies. Small molecules targeting epigenetic regulators have been developed recently, and clinical trials of these agents are under way for hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. In this review, we describe how the writers, readers, and erasers of epigenetic marks are dysregulated in cancer and summarize the development of therapies targeting these mechanisms.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsEpigenesis, GeneticHumansNeoplasmsSmall Molecule LibrariesAntineoplastic AgentsSmall Molecule Librariesanticancer therapiesDNA methylationepigenetic readersepigeneticshistone acetylationhistone methylation

Identifiers

PMID28992434
PMCPMC5800772
OpenAlexW2617455688

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Registered trials

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