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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2022

The MYC oncogene - the grand orchestrator of cancer growth and immune evasion.

Renumathy Dhanasekaran, Anja Deutzmann, Wadie D Mahauad-Fernandez, Aida S Hansen, Arvin M Gouw, Dean W Felsher

Registry-linked trialOpen access · greenAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06758700 (Phase II Clinical Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Teniposide as a Post-Line Therapy for c-Myc-Driven Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 645 papers.

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645citing papers in PubMed
45.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT06758700 phase2recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Phase II Clinical Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Teniposide as a Post-Line Therapy for c-Myc-Driven Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

TypeinterventionalSponsorShanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, ChinaRan2025 to 2026Enrolled15ConditionsExtensive-stage Small Cell Lung Cancer (ES-SCLC), Thoracic Neoplasms, Lung Neoplasms, Lung DiseasesArmsTeniposide administration
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

645 citing papers in PubMed, 911 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Targeting MYC-Driven Cancers: From Oncogenic Addiction to Therapeutic Vulnerability.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2026
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  14. Integrated Multiomic Profiling Enhances Risk Stratification and Prognostication in Canine Osteosarcoma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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585 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Renumathy DhanasekaranDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Anja DeutzmannDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3271-1427
Wadie D Mahauad-FernandezDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Aida S HansenDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6547-8393
Arvin M GouwDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Dean W FelsherDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. dfelsher@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · USStanford Medicine · US

Funding

Targeting the MYC Pathway for the Treatment of CancerR35CA253180 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DEAN W FELSHER · 2020 to 2026
$6.9M
Modeling and Predicting Therapeutic Resistance of CancerU01CA188383 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FELSHER, DEAN W, GAMBHIR, SANJIV S · 2014 to 2018
$3.2M
Prognostic Metabolic Signatures of Cancers Through Mass Spectrometry ImagingR01CA184384 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FELSHER, DEAN W, ZARE, RICHARD N · 2014 to 2018
$2.7M
(PQ7)Multi-scale Analysis of Tumor Microenvironment HeterogeneityR01CA208735 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FELSHER, DEAN W · 2017 to 2019
$2.2M
Cancer-Translational Nanotechnology Training Program (Cancer-TNT)T32CA196585 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FELSHER, DEAN W, RAO, JIANGHONG · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
Functional Proteomic Analysis and Biomarker Identification in a Novel Mouse Model of Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)K08CA222676 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DHANASEKARAN, RENUMATHY · 2018 to 2022
$1.0M
NCI NIH HHS K08 CA222676NCI NIH HHS R01 CA184384NCI NIH HHS R01 CA208735NCI NIH HHS R35 CA253180NCI NIH HHS T32 CA196585NCI NIH HHS U01 CA188383
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The MYC proto-oncogenes encode a family of transcription factors that are among the most commonly activated oncoproteins in human neoplasias. Indeed, MYC aberrations or upregulation of MYC-related pathways by alternate mechanisms occur in the vast majority of cancers. MYC proteins are master regulators of cellular programmes. Thus, cancers with MYC activation elicit many of the hallmarks of cancer required for autonomous neoplastic growth. In preclinical models, MYC inactivation can result in sustained tumour regression, a phenomenon that has been attributed to oncogene addiction. Many therapeutic agents that directly target MYC are under development; however, to date, their clinical efficacy remains to be demonstrated. In the past few years, studies have demonstrated that MYC signalling can enable tumour cells to dysregulate their microenvironment and evade the host immune response. Herein, we discuss how MYC pathways not only dictate cancer cell pathophysiology but also suppress the host immune response against that cancer. We also propose that therapies targeting the MYC pathway will be key to reversing cancerous growth and restoring antitumour immune responses in patients with MYC-driven cancers.

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Genes, mycHumansImmune EvasionNeoplasmsOncogenes

Identifiers

PMID34508258
PMCPMC9083341
OpenAlexW3196329163

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