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ReviewTrends in cancer2021

Precision therapy for RET-altered cancers with RET inhibitors.

Kyaw Z Thein, Vamsidhar Velcheti, Blaine H M Mooers, Jie Wu, Vivek Subbiah

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Review in Trends in cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
93citing papers in PubMed
19.4field-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

93 citing papers in PubMed, 164 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kyaw Z TheinDepartment of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Oregon Health and Science University/Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Vamsidhar VelchetiDepartment of Medicine, NYU Langone- Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Blaine H M MooersPeggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA; Laboratory of Biomolecular Structure and Function, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
Jie WuPeggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
Vivek SubbiahDepartment of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Division of Pediatrics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; MD Anderson Cancer Network, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: vsubbiah@mdanderson.org.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center · USNYU Langone Health · US

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Fabien Delerue · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
Convalescent Plasma to Limit Coronavirus Associated ComplicationsUL1TR003167 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI KARP, DANIEL D, MCPHERSON, DAVID D · 2019 to 2023
$45.3M
Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS)UL1TR000371 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MCPHERSON, DAVID D · 2012 to 2016
$13.4M
Blocking tumor progression in therapy-responsive RET aberration-associated cancerR01CA242845 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI AHNERT, JORDI RODON, MOOERS, BLAINE H. M. · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
Informatics to enable routine personalized cancer therapyU01CA180964 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI BERNSTAM, ELMER V., MERIC-BERNSTAM, FUNDA · 2013 to 2015
$964k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000371NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR003167NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NCI NIH HHS R01 CA242845NCI NIH HHS U01 CA180964
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rearranged during transfection (RET) is involved in the physiological development of some organ systems. Activating RET alterations via either gene fusions or point mutations are potent oncogenic drivers in non-small cell lung cancer, thyroid cancer, and in multiple diverse cancers. RET-altered cancers were initially treated with multikinase inhibitors (MKIs). The efficacy of MKIs was modest at the expense of notable toxicities from their off-target activity. Recently, highly potent and RET-specific inhibitors selpercatinib and pralsetinib were successfully translated to the clinic and FDA approved. We summarize the current state-of-the-art therapeutics with preclinical and clinical insights of these novel RET inhibitors, acquired resistance mechanisms, and future outlooks.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungLung NeoplasmsHumansProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-retProto-OncogenesProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-retRET protein, humanBLU-667 (pralsetinib)LOXO-292 (selpercatinib)lung cancermultikinase inhibitorsRET-altered cancersthyroid cancer

Identifiers

PMID34391699
PMCPMC8599646
OpenAlexW3187786768

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