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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2024

Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers.

Naiara Perurena, Lisa Situ, Karen Cichowski

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. KRAS Inhibition in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Naiara Perurena *Genetics Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0874-3389
Lisa Situ *Genetics Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9200-322X
Karen CichowskiGenetics Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. kcichowski@rics.bwh.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3940-3782

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although RAS was formerly considered undruggable, various agents that inhibit RAS or specific RAS oncoproteins have now been developed. Indeed, the importance of directly targeting RAS has recently been illustrated by the clinical success of mutant-selective KRAS inhibitors. Nevertheless, responses to these agents are typically incomplete and restricted to a subset of patients, highlighting the need to develop more effective treatments, which will likely require a combinatorial approach. Vertical strategies that target multiple nodes within the RAS pathway to achieve deeper suppression are being investigated and have precedence in other contexts. However, alternative strategies that co-target RAS and other therapeutic vulnerabilities have been identified, which may mitigate the requirement for profound pathway suppression. Regardless, the efficacy of any given approach will likely be dictated by genetic, epigenetic and tumour-specific variables. Here we discuss various combinatorial strategies to treat KRAS-driven cancers, highlighting mechanistic concepts that may extend to tumours harbouring other RAS mutations. Although many promising combinations have been identified, clinical responses will ultimately depend on whether a therapeutic window can be achieved and our ability to prospectively select responsive patients. Therefore, we must continue to develop and understand biologically diverse strategies to maximize our likelihood of success.

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NeoplasmsAnimalsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyMutationProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)ras ProteinsSignal TransductionKRAS protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)ras Proteins

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