Journal
OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 115-129Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/omi.2021.0221
Keywords
pituitary neuroendocrine tumors; pituitary adenoma; systems medicine; drug repositioning; omics; personalized medicine
Funding
- Health Institutes of Turkey (TUSEB) [3629]
- [YOK 100/2000]
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Innovation roadmaps are crucial for encouraging creativity, anticipating challenges, and providing potential strategies for the treatment of PitNETs.
Innovation roadmaps are important, because they encourage the actors in an innovation ecosystem to creatively imagine multiple possible science future(s), while anticipating the prospects and challenges on the innovation trajectory. In this overarching context, this expert review highlights the present unmet need for therapeutic innovations for pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs), also known as pituitary adenomas. Although there are many drugs used in practice to treat PitNETs, many of these drugs can have negative side effects and show highly variable outcomes in terms of overall recovery. Building innovation roadmaps for PitNETs' treatments can allow incorporation of systems biology approaches to bring about insights at multiple levels of cell biology, from genes to proteins to metabolites. Using the systems biology techniques, it will then be possible to offer potential therapeutic strategies for the convergence of preventive approaches and patient-centered disease treatment. Here, we first provide a comprehensive overview of the molecular subtypes of PitNETs and therapeutics for these tumors from the past to the present. We then discuss examples of clinical trials and drug repositioning studies and how multi-omics studies can help in discovery and rational development of new therapeutics for PitNETs. Finally, this expert review offers new public health and personalized medicine approaches on cases that are refractory to conventional treatment or recur despite currently used surgical and/or drug therapy.
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