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ReviewDiseases (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Therapeutic Advances and Challenges in the Management of HER2-Positive Gastroesophageal Cancers.

Jeremy Chuang, Samuel Klempner, Kevin Waters, Katelyn Atkins, Joseph Chao, May Cho, Andrew Hendifar, Alexandra Gangi, Miguel Burch, Pareen Mehta and 1 more

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Review in Diseases (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. HER2 status as a potential predictive biomarker for ovarian clear cell carcinoma.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Jeremy ChuangDepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 E Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
Samuel KlempnerMass General Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Kevin WatersDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Katelyn AtkinsDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Joseph ChaoDepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 E Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
May ChoDivision of Hematology and Oncology, UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, 101 The City Drive South, Building 23, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
Andrew HendifarDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Alexandra GangiDivision of Surgical Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Miguel BurchDepartment of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Pareen MehtaDepartment of Radiology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Jun GongSamuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8713-1406

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gastroesophageal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, with a high rate of mortality. While there has been significant progress over the past decade, particularly with the addition of anti-HER2 therapies to platinum-based chemotherapy agents in the advanced setting, the prognosis remains poor and the treatment options for this disease entity remain limited. In this review, we discuss the current therapeutic landscape for HER2-positive gastroesphageal cancer and the seminal clinical trials that have shaped our approach to this disease entity. In addition, we highlight some of the challenges to the understanding and management of this disease, specifically discussing the breadth of molecular diversity and intratumoral heterogeneity of HER2 expression that impact the clinical efficacy and prognosis. Furthermore, we discuss the potential role of next-generation sequencing (NGS) and circulating-tumor DNA (ctDNA) as complementary tools to immunohistochemistry (IHC) and fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) to guiding clinical decision making. Finally, we highlight promising clinical trials of new treatment regimens that will likely reshape the therapeutic approach to this disease entity.

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circulating tumor DNAgastroesophageal cancerHER2next-generation sequencingtrastuzumab

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PMID35645244
PMCPMC9149813

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