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ReviewFuture oncology (London, England)2025

Clinical characterization and therapeutic targeting of fusion genes in oncology.

Susan Morand, Lauren Rager, Daniel Craig, Alexander Nemunaitis, Khalil Choucair, Donald Rao, Laura Stanbery, Richard C Phinney, Adam Walter, Maurizio Ghisoli and 1 more

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Review in Future oncology (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Susan MorandDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Lauren RagerDepartment of Medicine, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH, USA.
Daniel CraigDepartment of Medicine, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH, USA.
Alexander NemunaitisTaylor Cancer Research Center, Maumee, OH, USA.
Khalil ChoucairDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Barbara Karmanos Cancer Institute,Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Donald RaoMedical Affairs, Gradalis Inc, Dallas, TX, USA.
Laura StanberyTaylor Cancer Research Center, Maumee, OH, USA.
Richard C PhinneyTaylor Cancer Research Center, Maumee, OH, USA.
Adam WalterMedical Affairs, Gradalis Inc, Dallas, TX, USA.
Maurizio GhisoliDepartment of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Texas Oncology, P.A, Dallas, TX, USA.
John NemunaitisTaylor Cancer Research Center, Maumee, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2234-2381

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene fusions represent important oncogenic driver mutations resulting in aberrant cellular signaling. In up to 17% of all solid tumors at least one gene fusion can be identified. Precision therapy targeting fusion gene signaling has demonstrated effective clinical benefit. Advancements in clinically relevant next-generation sequencing and bioinformatic techniques have enabled expansion of therapeutic opportunity to subpopulations of patients with fusion gene expression. Clinically, tyrosine inhibitors have shown efficacy in treating fusion gene expressing cancers. Fusion genes are also clonal mutations, meaning it is a personal cancer target involving all cancer cells of that patient, not just a subpopulation of cancer cells within the cancer mass. Thus, both fusion signal disruption and immune signal targeting are effective therapeutic directions. This review discusses fusion gene targeting, therapeutic resistance, and molecular biomarkers.

Indexed as

Gene FusionNeoplasmsOncogene Proteins, FusionBiomarkers, TumorDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyPrecision MedicineBiomarkers, TumorOncogene Proteins, Fusionclonal mutationclonal neoantigenFusion geneliquid biopsysolid tumor

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PMID40128124
PMCPMC11988278

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