ReviewDrugs2024
RET Inhibitors in RET Fusion-Positive Lung Cancers: Past, Present, and Future.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Recent Advances in Neoadjuvant Treatment of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Narrative Review.Current treatment options in oncology · 2026Review
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- Understanding the Promise and Challenges of Tumor-Agnostic Therapy: Could One Size Really Fit All?Cancers · 2026Review
- Synthesis, and evaluation of novel low nanomolar isoindigo-based RET kinase inhibitors.RSC advances · 2026Article
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- Thyroid cancer: From molecular insights to therapy (Review).Oncology letters · 2025Review
- Changing landscape of advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: Breakthroughs in systemic therapies (Review).Oncology reports · 2025Review
- Posttranslational modifications of YAP/TAZ: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025Review
- Thyroid Cancer: Epidemiology, Classification, Risk Factors, Diagnostic and Prognostic Markers, and Current Treatment Strategies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- BYS10, a novel selective RET inhibitor, exhibits potent antitumor activity in preclinical models.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
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Abstract
While activating RET fusions are identified in various cancers, lung cancer represents the most common RET fusion-positive tumor. The clinical drug development of RET inhibitors in RET fusion-positive lung cancers naturally began after RET fusions were first identified in patient tumor samples in 2011, and thereafter paralleled drug development in RET fusion-positive thyroid cancers. Multikinase inhibitors were initially tested with limited efficacy and substantial toxicity. RET inhibitors were then designed with improved selectivity, central nervous system penetrance, and activity against RET fusions and most RET mutations, including resistance mutations. Owing their success to these rationally designed features, the first-generation selective RET tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) had higher response rates, more durable disease control, and an improved safety profile compared to the multikinase inhibitors. This led to lung and thyroid cancer, and later tumor-agnostic regulatory approvals. While next-generation RET TKIs were designed to abrogate uncommon on-target (e.g., solvent front mutation) resistance to selpercatinib and pralsetinib, many of these drugs lacked the selectivity of the first-generation TKIs, raising the question of what the future holds for drug development in RET-dependent cancers.
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