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Combinatorial drug therapy for cancer in the post-genomic era
Abstract
Over the past decade, whole genome sequencing and other 'omics' technologies have defined pathogenic driver mutations to which tumor cells are addicted. Such addictions, synthetic lethalities and other tumor vulnerabilities have yielded novel targets for a new generation of cancer drugs to treat discrete, genetically defined patient subgroups. This personalized cancer medicine strategy could eventually replace the conventional one-size-fits-all cytotoxic chemotherapy approach. However, the extraordinary intratumor genetic heterogeneity in cancers revealed by deep sequencing explains why de novo and acquired resistance arise with molecularly targeted drugs and cytotoxic chemotherapy, limiting their utility. One solution to the enduring challenge of polygenic cancer drug resistance is rational combinatorial targeted therapy.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Al-Lazikani, B., Banerji, U., & Workman, P.
- Affiliations
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Institute of Cancer Research (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Banerji, Udai
- Workman, Paul
- Venue
- Nature Biotechnology
- Published
- 2012-07
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 679-692
- ISSN
- 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
- 1087-0156
- 1546-1696
- OpenAlex
- W2061061337
- Cited by
- 1,070
- References
- 172
- Citations by year
- 2026: 63 · 2025: 80 · 2024: 71 · 2023: 73 · 2022: 87 · 2021: 73 · 2020: 80 · 2019: 91 · 2018: 81 · 2017: 76 · 2016: 83 · 2015: 90 · 2014: 69 · 2013: 46 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 5.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust/Institute of Cancer Research
- Cancer Research UK (C309/8992, 11566, C309/A8274)
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Keywords
- combination therapy, targeted cancer therapy, driver mutations, synthetic lethality, tumor vulnerability, precision oncology, acquired drug resistance, de novo resistance, polygenic resistance, cytotoxic chemotherapy
- MeSH terms
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Clinical Trials as Topic, Combined Modality Therapy, Humans, Neoplasms, Drug Design, Genome, Human, Genetic Heterogeneity, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Precision Medicine, Molecular Targeted Therapy, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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