Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00933-8
Antonio Marra, Sarat Chandarlapaty, Shanu Modi
{"title":"Author Correction: Management of patients with advanced-stage HER2-positive breast cancer: current evidence and future perspectives","authors":"Antonio Marra, Sarat Chandarlapaty, Shanu Modi","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00933-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-024-00933-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"21 9","pages":"701-701"},"PeriodicalIF":81.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41571-024-00933-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141879156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00931-w
Diana Romero
{"title":"Anlotinib plus benmelstobart and chemotherapy are effective in ES-SCLC","authors":"Diana Romero","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00931-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-024-00931-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"21 10","pages":"703-703"},"PeriodicalIF":81.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141790953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00926-7
Julia Chen, Ludvig Larsson, Alexander Swarbrick, Joakim Lundeberg
Solid tumours comprise many different cell types organized in spatially structured arrangements, with substantial intratumour and intertumour heterogeneity. Advances in spatial profiling technologies over the past decade hold promise to capture the complexity of these cellular architectures to build a holistic view of the intricate molecular mechanisms that shape the tumour ecosystem. Some of these mechanisms act at the cellular scale and are controlled by cell-autonomous programmes or communication between nearby cells, whereas other mechanisms result from coordinated efforts between large networks of cells and extracellular molecules organized into tissues and organs. In this Review we provide insights into the application of single-cell and spatial profiling tools, with a focus on spatially resolved transcriptomic tools developed to understand the cellular architecture of the tumour microenvironment and identify opportunities to use them to improve clinical management of cancers. Solid tumours are complex ecosystems comprising many different cell types with spatially structured arrangement. The authors of the Review describe how single-cell and spatial profiling tools have been applied to understand the cellular architecture of the tumour microenvironment. These approaches have potential to improve the way cancer is diagnosed and treated.
{"title":"Spatial landscapes of cancers: insights and opportunities","authors":"Julia Chen, Ludvig Larsson, Alexander Swarbrick, Joakim Lundeberg","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00926-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-024-00926-7","url":null,"abstract":"Solid tumours comprise many different cell types organized in spatially structured arrangements, with substantial intratumour and intertumour heterogeneity. Advances in spatial profiling technologies over the past decade hold promise to capture the complexity of these cellular architectures to build a holistic view of the intricate molecular mechanisms that shape the tumour ecosystem. Some of these mechanisms act at the cellular scale and are controlled by cell-autonomous programmes or communication between nearby cells, whereas other mechanisms result from coordinated efforts between large networks of cells and extracellular molecules organized into tissues and organs. In this Review we provide insights into the application of single-cell and spatial profiling tools, with a focus on spatially resolved transcriptomic tools developed to understand the cellular architecture of the tumour microenvironment and identify opportunities to use them to improve clinical management of cancers. Solid tumours are complex ecosystems comprising many different cell types with spatially structured arrangement. The authors of the Review describe how single-cell and spatial profiling tools have been applied to understand the cellular architecture of the tumour microenvironment. These approaches have potential to improve the way cancer is diagnosed and treated.","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"21 9","pages":"660-674"},"PeriodicalIF":81.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41571-024-00926-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141752235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00924-9
Jeesun Yoon, Do-Youn Oh
The receptor tyrosine-kinase HER2 (also known as ErbB2) is a well-established therapeutic target in patients with breast or gastric cancer selected on the basis of HER2 overexpression on immunohistochemistry and/or ERBB2 amplification on in situ hybridization. With advances in cancer molecular profiling and increased implementation of precision medicine approaches into oncology practice, actionable HER2 alterations in solid tumours have expanded to include ERBB2 mutations in addition to traditional HER2 overexpression and ERBB2 amplification. These various HER2 alterations can be found in solid tumour types beyond breast and gastric cancer, although few HER2-targeted therapeutic options have been established for the other tumour types. Nevertheless, during the 5 years since our previous Review on this topic was published in this journal, obvious and fruitful progress in the development of HER2-targeted therapies has been made, including new disease indications, innovative drugs with diverse mechanisms of action and novel frameworks for approval by regulatory authorities. These advances have culminated in the recent histology-agnostic approval of the anti-HER2 antibody–drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan for patients with HER2-overexpressing solid tumours. In this new Review, we provide an update on the current development landscape of HER2-targeted therapies beyond breast cancer, as well as anticipated future HER2-directed treatment strategies to overcome resistance and thereby improve efficacy and patient outcomes. Anti-HER2 therapy has revolutionized the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer. However, HER2 has emerged as a driver of various other cancers and the indications for HER2-targeted therapy have expanded to include diverse HER2-overexpressing as well as HER2-mutant tumour types beyond breast cancer, facilitated by the advent of novel agents with greater potency and distinct mechanisms of action. Some of these agents have demonstrated promising activity even against HER2-low cancers. Herein, Yoon and Oh describe the landscape of HER2 alterations and HER2-targeted drug development beyond breast cancer. They also discuss new insights into mechanisms of resistance and potential strategies by which they might be overcome.
{"title":"HER2-targeted therapies beyond breast cancer — an update","authors":"Jeesun Yoon, Do-Youn Oh","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00924-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-024-00924-9","url":null,"abstract":"The receptor tyrosine-kinase HER2 (also known as ErbB2) is a well-established therapeutic target in patients with breast or gastric cancer selected on the basis of HER2 overexpression on immunohistochemistry and/or ERBB2 amplification on in situ hybridization. With advances in cancer molecular profiling and increased implementation of precision medicine approaches into oncology practice, actionable HER2 alterations in solid tumours have expanded to include ERBB2 mutations in addition to traditional HER2 overexpression and ERBB2 amplification. These various HER2 alterations can be found in solid tumour types beyond breast and gastric cancer, although few HER2-targeted therapeutic options have been established for the other tumour types. Nevertheless, during the 5 years since our previous Review on this topic was published in this journal, obvious and fruitful progress in the development of HER2-targeted therapies has been made, including new disease indications, innovative drugs with diverse mechanisms of action and novel frameworks for approval by regulatory authorities. These advances have culminated in the recent histology-agnostic approval of the anti-HER2 antibody–drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan for patients with HER2-overexpressing solid tumours. In this new Review, we provide an update on the current development landscape of HER2-targeted therapies beyond breast cancer, as well as anticipated future HER2-directed treatment strategies to overcome resistance and thereby improve efficacy and patient outcomes. Anti-HER2 therapy has revolutionized the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer. However, HER2 has emerged as a driver of various other cancers and the indications for HER2-targeted therapy have expanded to include diverse HER2-overexpressing as well as HER2-mutant tumour types beyond breast cancer, facilitated by the advent of novel agents with greater potency and distinct mechanisms of action. Some of these agents have demonstrated promising activity even against HER2-low cancers. Herein, Yoon and Oh describe the landscape of HER2 alterations and HER2-targeted drug development beyond breast cancer. They also discuss new insights into mechanisms of resistance and potential strategies by which they might be overcome.","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"21 9","pages":"675-700"},"PeriodicalIF":81.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141736910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00928-5
David Killock
{"title":"BrECADD raises the bar in classical Hodgkin lymphoma","authors":"David Killock","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00928-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-024-00928-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"21 9","pages":"639-639"},"PeriodicalIF":81.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141736907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-19DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00927-6
Niels W. C. J. van de Donk, Sonja Zweegman
BCMA-directed chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies and bispecific T cell engagers are moving to earlier lines of therapy in multiple myeloma. In addition, combination therapy with the BCMA-targeting antibody–drug conjugate belantamab mafodotin at first or subsequent relapse has the potential to improve survival of patients with this disease. This increasing number of therapeutic options makes treatment selection and sequencing increasingly complex.
{"title":"BCMA-directed therapy for early relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma","authors":"Niels W. C. J. van de Donk, Sonja Zweegman","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00927-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-024-00927-6","url":null,"abstract":"BCMA-directed chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies and bispecific T cell engagers are moving to earlier lines of therapy in multiple myeloma. In addition, combination therapy with the BCMA-targeting antibody–drug conjugate belantamab mafodotin at first or subsequent relapse has the potential to improve survival of patients with this disease. This increasing number of therapeutic options makes treatment selection and sequencing increasingly complex.","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"21 10","pages":"707-708"},"PeriodicalIF":81.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141727582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00923-w
Duaa H. Al-Rawi, Emanuele Lettera, Jun Li, Melody DiBona, Samuel F. Bakhoum
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and a driver of metastatic dissemination, therapeutic resistance, and immune evasion. CIN is present in 60–80% of human cancers and poses a formidable therapeutic challenge as evidenced by the lack of clinically approved drugs that directly target CIN. This limitation in part reflects a lack of well-defined druggable targets as well as a dearth of tractable biomarkers enabling direct assessment and quantification of CIN in patients with cancer. Over the past decade, however, our understanding of the cellular mechanisms and consequences of CIN has greatly expanded, revealing novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of chromosomally unstable tumours as well as new methods of assessing the dynamic nature of chromosome segregation errors that define CIN. In this Review, we describe advances that have shaped our understanding of CIN from a translational perspective, highlighting both challenges and opportunities in the development of therapeutic interventions for patients with chromosomally unstable cancers. Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a dynamic phenotype characterized by changes in chromosome number and structure and is a hallmark of clinically aggressive malignancies. Nonetheless, the ability of cancer cells to tolerate CIN creates several potential therapeutic vulnerabilities. In this Review, the authors describe the development of CIN and how this phenotype promotes carcinogenesis and tumour progression as well as describing the various attempts to develop targeted therapies based on the specific vulnerabilities of these tumours.
{"title":"Targeting chromosomal instability in patients with cancer","authors":"Duaa H. Al-Rawi, Emanuele Lettera, Jun Li, Melody DiBona, Samuel F. Bakhoum","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00923-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-024-00923-w","url":null,"abstract":"Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and a driver of metastatic dissemination, therapeutic resistance, and immune evasion. CIN is present in 60–80% of human cancers and poses a formidable therapeutic challenge as evidenced by the lack of clinically approved drugs that directly target CIN. This limitation in part reflects a lack of well-defined druggable targets as well as a dearth of tractable biomarkers enabling direct assessment and quantification of CIN in patients with cancer. Over the past decade, however, our understanding of the cellular mechanisms and consequences of CIN has greatly expanded, revealing novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of chromosomally unstable tumours as well as new methods of assessing the dynamic nature of chromosome segregation errors that define CIN. In this Review, we describe advances that have shaped our understanding of CIN from a translational perspective, highlighting both challenges and opportunities in the development of therapeutic interventions for patients with chromosomally unstable cancers. Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a dynamic phenotype characterized by changes in chromosome number and structure and is a hallmark of clinically aggressive malignancies. Nonetheless, the ability of cancer cells to tolerate CIN creates several potential therapeutic vulnerabilities. In this Review, the authors describe the development of CIN and how this phenotype promotes carcinogenesis and tumour progression as well as describing the various attempts to develop targeted therapies based on the specific vulnerabilities of these tumours.","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"21 9","pages":"645-659"},"PeriodicalIF":81.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141584529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00925-8
Jonathan Strosberg, Mauro Cives
The NETTER-2 trial provides the first phase III evidence that 177Lu-dotatate is active as first-line therapy in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours with a Ki-67 proliferative index of 10–55%. This approach is an important addition to the first-line therapeutic armamentarium, although treatment selection based on patient-specific and tumour-specific characteristics remains appropriate.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-04DOI: 10.1038/s41571-024-00914-x
Triparna Sen, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Subhamoy Chakraborty, Naoko Takebe, Amin H. Nassar, Nagla A. Karim, Sonam Puri, Abdul Rafeh Naqash
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) has traditionally been considered a recalcitrant cancer with a dismal prognosis, with only modest advances in therapeutic strategies over the past several decades. Comprehensive genomic assessments of SCLC have revealed that most of these tumours harbour deletions of the tumour-suppressor genes TP53 and RB1 but, in contrast to non-small-cell lung cancer, have failed to identify targetable alterations. The expression status of four transcription factors with key roles in SCLC pathogenesis defines distinct molecular subtypes of the disease, potentially enabling specific therapeutic approaches. Overexpression and amplification of MYC paralogues also affect the biology and therapeutic vulnerabilities of SCLC. Several other attractive targets have emerged in the past few years, including inhibitors of DNA-damage-response pathways, epigenetic modifiers, antibody–drug conjugates and chimeric antigen receptor T cells. However, the rapid development of therapeutic resistance and lack of biomarkers for effective selection of patients with SCLC are ongoing challenges. Emerging single-cell RNA sequencing data are providing insights into the plasticity and intratumoural and intertumoural heterogeneity of SCLC that might be associated with therapeutic resistance. In this Review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in genomic and transcriptomic characterization of SCLC with a particular focus on opportunities for translation into new therapeutic approaches to improve patient outcomes. Traditionally, patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), a malignancy with a dismal prognosis, have had limited treatment options. Over the past few years, advances in the molecular characterization of SCLC have revealed novel therapeutic targets. The authors of this Review summarize these findings and discuss emerging opportunities and challenges for their translation into new treatment approaches.
{"title":"Emerging advances in defining the molecular and therapeutic landscape of small-cell lung cancer","authors":"Triparna Sen, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Subhamoy Chakraborty, Naoko Takebe, Amin H. Nassar, Nagla A. Karim, Sonam Puri, Abdul Rafeh Naqash","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00914-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41571-024-00914-x","url":null,"abstract":"Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) has traditionally been considered a recalcitrant cancer with a dismal prognosis, with only modest advances in therapeutic strategies over the past several decades. Comprehensive genomic assessments of SCLC have revealed that most of these tumours harbour deletions of the tumour-suppressor genes TP53 and RB1 but, in contrast to non-small-cell lung cancer, have failed to identify targetable alterations. The expression status of four transcription factors with key roles in SCLC pathogenesis defines distinct molecular subtypes of the disease, potentially enabling specific therapeutic approaches. Overexpression and amplification of MYC paralogues also affect the biology and therapeutic vulnerabilities of SCLC. Several other attractive targets have emerged in the past few years, including inhibitors of DNA-damage-response pathways, epigenetic modifiers, antibody–drug conjugates and chimeric antigen receptor T cells. However, the rapid development of therapeutic resistance and lack of biomarkers for effective selection of patients with SCLC are ongoing challenges. Emerging single-cell RNA sequencing data are providing insights into the plasticity and intratumoural and intertumoural heterogeneity of SCLC that might be associated with therapeutic resistance. In this Review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in genomic and transcriptomic characterization of SCLC with a particular focus on opportunities for translation into new therapeutic approaches to improve patient outcomes. Traditionally, patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), a malignancy with a dismal prognosis, have had limited treatment options. Over the past few years, advances in the molecular characterization of SCLC have revealed novel therapeutic targets. The authors of this Review summarize these findings and discuss emerging opportunities and challenges for their translation into new treatment approaches.","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"21 8","pages":"610-627"},"PeriodicalIF":81.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141534885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}