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ReviewMolecular cancer2018

Kinase-targeted cancer therapies: progress, challenges and future directions.

Khushwant S Bhullar, Naiara Orrego Lagarón, Eileen M McGowan, Indu Parmar, Amitabh Jha, Basil P Hubbard, H P Vasantha Rupasinghe

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Review in Molecular cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 600 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

600 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Khushwant S BhullarDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Naiara Orrego LagarónDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Eileen M McGowanChronic Disease Solutions Team, School of Life Science, University of Technology, New South Wales, Australia.
Indu ParmarDivision of Product Development, Radient Technologies, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Amitabh JhaDepartment of Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada.
Basil P HubbardDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
H P Vasantha RupasingheDepartment of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Truro, NS, Canada. vrupasinghe@dal.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human genome encodes 538 protein kinases that transfer a γ-phosphate group from ATP to serine, threonine, or tyrosine residues. Many of these kinases are associated with human cancer initiation and progression. The recent development of small-molecule kinase inhibitors for the treatment of diverse types of cancer has proven successful in clinical therapy. Significantly, protein kinases are the second most targeted group of drug targets, after the G-protein-coupled receptors. Since the development of the first protein kinase inhibitor, in the early 1980s, 37 kinase inhibitors have received FDA approval for treatment of malignancies such as breast and lung cancer. Furthermore, about 150 kinase-targeted drugs are in clinical phase trials, and many kinase-specific inhibitors are in the preclinical stage of drug development. Nevertheless, many factors confound the clinical efficacy of these molecules. Specific tumor genetics, tumor microenvironment, drug resistance, and pharmacogenomics determine how useful a compound will be in the treatment of a given cancer. This review provides an overview of kinase-targeted drug discovery and development in relation to oncology and highlights the challenges and future potential for kinase-targeted cancer therapies.

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AnimalsHumansMolecular StructureNeoplasmsProtein Kinase InhibitorsProtein KinasesProtein Kinase InhibitorsProtein KinasesCancerKinase inhibitionKinasesOncologySmall-molecule drugs

Identifiers

PMID29455673
PMCPMC5817855

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