Trial reportClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2019
Efficacy of Combined VEGFR1-3, PDGFα/β, and FGFR1-3 Blockade Using Nintedanib for Esophagogastric Cancer.
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- FGFR as a Predictive Marker for Targeted Therapy in Gastrointestinal Malignancies: A Systematic Review.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2025Pooled it
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- Cardiotoxicity of small-molecule kinase inhibitors in cancer therapy.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2025Review
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- A 50-Year-Old Man Presenting with Multiple Bone Lesions and a Diagnosis of Phosphaturic Mesenchymal Tumor of the Femur.The American journal of case reports · 2024Article
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- Nintedanib Induces the Autophagy-Dependent Death of Gastric Cancer Cells by Inhibiting the STAT3/Beclin1 Pathway.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2023Article
- Recent progress on vascular endothelial growth factor receptor inhibitors with dual targeting capabilities for tumor therapy.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2022Review
- Nintedanib in an elderly non-small-cell lung cancer patient with severe steroid-refractory checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis: A case report and literature review.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
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- The beginning of the era of precision medicine for gastric cancer with fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 aberration.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2021Review
- Mechanisms of Pharmaceutical Therapy and Drug Resistance in Esophageal Cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- The Emerging Role of Rab5 in Membrane Receptor Trafficking and Signaling Pathways.Biochemistry research international · 2020Review
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Abstract
purposeVEGFR2-directed therapy is commonly used to treat metastatic esophagogastric cancer, but disease progresses in most patients within months. Therapeutic resistance is likely mediated in part by co-occurring amplifications of the genes for multiple oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK). We therefore tested the efficacy of combined inhibition of VEGFR1-3, PDGFα/β, and FGFR1-3 using nintedanib. PATIENTS AND
methodsPatients with metastatic esophagogastric adenocarcinoma and disease progression on first-line chemotherapy were treated with nintedanib 200 mg twice daily. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS) at 6 months; secondary endpoints included tumor response and safety. Tumor biopsies were profiled by targeted capture next-generation sequencing (NGS) to identify molecular predictors of drug response.
resultsThe study achieved its primary endpoint; 6 of 32 patients (19%) were progression-free at 6 months. With a median follow-up of 14.5 months among survivors, median overall survival (OS) was 14.2 months [95% confidence interval (CI), 10.8 months-NR]. Nintedanib was well tolerated; grade ≥ 3 toxicities were uncommon and included grade 3 hypertension (15%) and liver enzyme elevation (4%).
conclusionsNintedanib treatment resulted in modest disease stabilization in patients with metastatic esophagogastric cancer. Alterations in cell-cycle pathway genes and increased global copy-number alteration (CNA) burden warrant further study as prognostic or predictive biomarkers.
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