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SEMINARS IN CANCER BIOLOGY
卷 86, 期 -, 页码 543-554出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2022.04.001
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SCLC; Subtypes; Targeted therapeutics; Intratumoral heterogeneity; Plasticity
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive tumor with poor understanding of its biology. Recent studies identified four distinct subsets of SCLC and revealed the importance of intratumoral heterogeneity in SCLC development and progression. These findings will inform the design of new therapeutic strategies.
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an extremely aggressive neuroendocrine tumor, accounting for approximated 13% of all lung cancer cases. SCLC is characterized by rapid growth and early metastasis. Despite marked im-provements in the number and efficacy of targeted, therapeutic options and overall survival rates in SCLC have remained nearly unchanged for almost three decades. The lack of significant progress can be attributed to our poor understanding of the biology of SCLC. Although immune checkpoint inhibitors were recently approved as front-line therapies for SCLC, we still need to better understand the mechanisms responsible for the selective vulnerability of some SCLCs to these inhibitors. Recent work utilizing sequencing data and single cell analyses identified four distinct subsets of SCLC, based on the expression levels of the transcription factors ASCL1, NEUROD1, POU2F3 and YAP1. Each subset was found to have its own distinct biology and therapeutic vul-nerabilities. However, these subsets appear to be phenotypically unstable, representing snapshots in the gradual evolution of a tumor that exhibits significant plasticity. Tumor evolution, a product of this plasticity, results in the emergence of significant intratumoral heterogeneity which plays an important role in multiple aspects of SCLC development and progression, including cell survival and proliferation, metastasis and angiogenesis. The recent paradigm shifting discoveries in the biology of SCLC are now beginning to inform the design of new therapeutic strategies for the management of this intractable disease.
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