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ReviewCancers2020

Src Family Kinases as Therapeutic Targets in Advanced Solid Tumors: What We Have Learned so Far.

Stefano Martellucci, Letizia Clementi, Samantha Sabetta, Vincenzo Mattei, Lorenzo Botta, Adriano Angelucci

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Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
90citing papers in PubMed
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

90 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Benchmarking Molecular Mutation Operators for Evolutionary Drug Design.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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30 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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Stefano MartellucciDepartment of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3952-3162
Letizia ClementiDepartment of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
Samantha SabettaDepartment of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
Vincenzo MatteiBiomedicine and Advanced Technologies Rieti Center "Sabina Universitas", 02100 Rieti, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4677-088X
Lorenzo BottaDepartment of Biological and Ecological Science, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy.
Adriano AngelucciDepartment of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8755-1889
University of L'Aquila · ITIMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca · ITUniversità degli Studi della Tuscia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Src is the prototypal member of Src Family tyrosine Kinases (SFKs), a large non-receptor kinase class that controls multiple signaling pathways in animal cells. SFKs activation is necessary for the mitogenic signal from many growth factors, but also for the acquisition of migratory and invasive phenotype. Indeed, oncogenic activation of SFKs has been demonstrated to play an important role in solid cancers; promoting tumor growth and formation of distant metastases. Several drugs targeting SFKs have been developed and tested in preclinical models and many of them have successfully reached clinical use in hematologic cancers. Although in solid tumors SFKs inhibitors have consistently confirmed their ability in blocking cancer cell progression in several experimental models; their utilization in clinical trials has unveiled unexpected complications against an effective utilization in patients. In this review, we summarize basic molecular mechanisms involving SFKs in cancer spreading and metastasization; and discuss preclinical and clinical data highlighting the main challenges for their future application as therapeutic targets in solid cancer progression.

Indexed as

cancer invasioncancer metastasizationcancer migrationclinical trialdasatinibepithelial-to-mesenchymal transitionSrcsrc family tyrosine kinasestargeted therapy

Identifiers

PMID32498343
PMCPMC7352436
OpenAlexW3034094834

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