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MOLECULAR CANCER THERAPEUTICS
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 265-272Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-16-0105
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- Genentech
- Merck Serono
- Pfizer
- Sequenom
- Foundation Medicine
- Guardant
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The vast majority of patients with metastatic lung cancers who initially benefit from EGFR-targeted therapies eventually develop resistance. An increasing understanding of the number and complexity of resistance mechanisms highlights the challenge of treating tumors resistant to EGFR inhibitors. Resistance mechanisms include new, second-site mutations within EGFR (e.g., T790M and C797S), upregulation of MET kinase, upregulation of insulin growth factor receptor (IGFR), HER2 ampli-fication, increased expression of AXL, BIM modulation, NF-kB activation, histologic switch to small-cell cancer, epithelial-tomesenchymal transition, PDL1 expression with subsequent immune tolerance, and release of cytokines such as TGFb and IL6. Herein, we review the growing body of knowledge regarding EGFR bypass pathways, and the development of new drugs and combination treatment strategies to overcome resistance.
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