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Clinically relevant CHK1 inhibitors abrogate wild-type and Y537S mutant ERα expression and proliferation in luminal primary and metastatic breast cancer cells - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research

Clinically relevant CHK1 inhibitors abrogate wild-type and Y537S mutant ERα expression and proliferation in luminal primary and metastatic breast cancer cells - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research

Source : https://jeccr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13046-022-02360-y

Background Challenges exist in the clinical treatment of luminal estrogen receptor α (ERα)-positive breast cancers (BCs) both to prevent resistance to endocrine therapy (ET) and to treat ET-resistant metastatic BCs...


Conclusions: CHK1 could be considered as an appealing novel pharmacological target for the treatment of luminal primary and MBCs.

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Functional genomic analysis of CDK4 and CDK6 gene dependency across human cancer cell lines - PubMed

Functional genomic analysis of CDK4 and CDK6 gene dependency across human cancer cell lines - PubMed

Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35395071/

Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) and cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) are key cell cycle regulators that are frequently dysregulated in human malignancies. CDK4/6 inhibitors are clinically approved for the treatment of...


Conclusion/Relevance: Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) and cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) are key cell cycle regulators that are frequently dysregulated in human malignancies. CDK4/6 inhibitors are clinically approved for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative (HR /HER2-) breast cancer, but improved specificity and reduced...

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Adjuvant Abemaciclib Combined with Endocrine Therapy for High Risk Early Breast Cancer: Safety and Patient-Reported Outcomes From the monarchE Study

Adjuvant Abemaciclib Combined with Endocrine Therapy for High Risk Early Breast Cancer: Safety and Patient-Reported Outcomes From the monarchE Study

Source : https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(22)00383-0/fulltext

In monarchE, abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy (ET) as adjuvant treatment of hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor 2-negative, high risk, early breast cancer demonstrated a clinically meaningful improvement in invasive...


Conclusion: In patients with high risk EBC, adjuvant abemaciclib ET has an acceptable safety profile and tolerability is supported by PRO findings. Most AEs were reversible and manageable with comedications and/or dose modifications, consistent with the known abemaciclib toxicity profile.

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Adjuvant Abemaciclib Plus Endocrine Therapy in the Treatment of High-Risk Early Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline Rapid Recommendation Update Q and A

Adjuvant Abemaciclib Plus Endocrine Therapy in the Treatment of High-Risk Early Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline Rapid Recommendation Update Q and A

Source : https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/OP.22.00140

In 2020, Johnston et al1 reported the primary results from monarchE, a phase III, open-label randomized clinical trial, following the second preplanned interim analysis after 19 months of median follow-up.


Relevance: To offer a prompt response to these updated analyses, ASCO published a rapid recommendation update of ASCO's selection of optimal adjuvant chemotherapy and targeted therapy guideline5 to address the use of abemaciclib in the adjuvant setting (Table 1). This companion Q and A article addresses some of the questions that clinicians face...

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Management of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative metastatic breast cancer: Role of poly adenosine diphosphate (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors - PubMed

Management of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative metastatic breast cancer: Role of poly adenosine diphosphate (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors - PubMed

Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35343197/

Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative subset is the most heterogeneous group of metastatic breast cancers (MBCs) as it includes both hormone receptor (HR)-positive and HR-negative breast cancer (or...


Conclusion/Relevance: TNBC has conventionally been treated ineffectively with systemic chemotherapy. Recently, poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) have emerged for HER2-negative breast cancer (BC) patients, including TNBC. Olaparib and talazoparib have recently been approved in germline BRCA-mutated (gBRCAm) HER2-negative MBC....