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ReviewCurrent oncology reports2021

WEE1 Inhibitor: Clinical Development.

Anthony Kong, Hisham Mehanna

Open access · hybridAbstract readReview
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Review in Current oncology reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
65citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.9field-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

65 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 101 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Multicenter Phase II Trial of the WEE1 Inhibitor Adavosertib in Refractory Solid Tumors HarboringJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2023
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  4. Revisiting tumor immunogenicity through the lens of mutant p53: Implications for cancer immunotherapy.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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  8. Inactivation ofLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  12. Biomarker-Driven Treatments for Ovarian Cancer: Moving Beyond HRD?International journal of women's health · 2026
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  18. Targeting WEE1 to Overcome ARID1A Mutation-Driven Osimertinib Resistance in EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2025
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5 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anthony KongInstitute of Head and Neck Studies (InHANSE), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. anthony.kong@kcl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-3989-3948
Hisham MehannaInstitute of Head and Neck Studies (InHANSE), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. h.mehanna@bham.ac.uk.
King's College London · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewWEE1 inhibitor has been shown to potential chemotherapy or radiotherapy sensitivity in preclinical models, particularly in p53-mutated or deficient cancer cells although not exclusively. Here, we review the clinical development of WEE1 inhibitor in combination with chemotherapy or radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy as well as its combination with different novel agents. RECENT

findingsAlthough several clinical trials have shown that WEE1 inhibitor can be safely combined with different chemotherapy agents as well as radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy, its clinical development has been hampered by the higher rate of grade 3 toxicities when added to standard treatments. A few clinical trials had also been conducted to test WEE1 inhibitor using TP53 mutation as a predictive biomarker. However, TP53 mutation has not been shown to be the most reliable predictive biomarker and the benefit of adding WEE1 inhibitor to chemotherapy has been modest, even in TP53 biomarker-driven studies. There are ongoing clinical trials testing WEE1 inhibitor with novel agents such as ATR and PAPR inhibitors as well as anti-PDL1 immunotherapy, which may better define the role of WEE1 inhibitor in the future if any of the novel treatment combination will show superior anti-tumor efficacy with a good safety profile compared to monotherapy and/or standard treatment.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCell CycleCell Cycle ProteinsDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA ReplicationEnzyme InhibitorsHumansNeoplasmsProtein-Tyrosine KinasesPyrazolesPyrimidinonesadavosertibAntineoplastic AgentsCell Cycle ProteinsEnzyme InhibitorsProtein-Tyrosine KinasesPyrazolesPyrimidinonesWEE1 protein, humanAdavosertibAZD1775BiomarkerClinical trialsTP53 mutationWEE1 inhibitor

Identifiers

PMID34269904
PMCPMC8285350
OpenAlexW3166235349

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