Journal
FRONTIERS OF MEDICINE
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 134-138Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11684-015-0396-9
Keywords
targeted therapy; drug resistance; receptor tyrosine kinases; cancer
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- National Institutes of Health [CA186800, CA059365]
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Drug resistance is a major factor that limits the efficacy of targeted cancer therapies. In this review, we discuss the main known mechanisms of resistance to receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors, which are the most prevalent class of targeted therapeutic agent in current clinical use. Here we focus on bypass track resistance, which involves the activation of alternate signaling molecules by tumor cells to bypass inhibition and maintain signaling output, and consider the problems of signaling pathway redundancy and how the activation of different receptor tyrosine kinases translates into intracellular signal transduction in different cancer types. This information is presented in the context of research strategies for the discovery of new targets for pharmacological intervention, with the goal of overcoming resistance in order to improve patient outcomes.
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