Old Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Newcomers in Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment.

Abstract

Gastrointestinal cancer treatment is based more on molecular biology that has provided increasing knowledge about cancer pathogenesis on which targeted therapy is being developed. Precisely, targeted therapy is defined as a "type of treatment that uses drugs, such as monoclonal antibodies or tyrosine kinase inhibitors, to identify and attack specific cancer cells". Nowadays, the United States Food and Drug Administration has approved many targeted therapies for gastrointestinal cancer treatment, as many are in various phases of development as well. In a previous review we discussed the main monoclonal antibodies used and studied in gastrointestinal cancer. In addition to monoclonal antibodies, tyrosine kinase inhibitors represent another class of targeted therapy and following the approval of imatinib for gastrointestinal stromal tumours, other tyrosine kinase inhibitors have been approved for gastrointestinal cancers treatment such as sunitinib, regoragenib, sorafenib and erlotinib. Moving forward, the purpose of this review is to focus on the efficacy data of main tyrosine kinase inhibitors commonly used in the personalized treatment of each gastrointestinal tumour and to provide a comprehensive overview about experimental targeted therapies ongoing in this setting.

• Authors: Erika Giordani, Federica Zoratto, Martina Strudel, Anselmo Papa, Luigi Rossi, Marina Minozzi, Davide Caruso, Eleonora Zaccarelli, Monica Verrico, Silverio Tomao
• Journal: Current cancer drug targets (Curr Cancer Drug Targets) Vol. 16 Issue 2 Pg. 175-85 ( 2016) ISSN: 1873-5576 [Electronic] Netherlands
• PMID: 26278713 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Chemical References

• Antineoplastic Agents
• Biomarkers, Tumor
• Protein Kinase Inhibitors
• Protein-Tyrosine Kinases

Topics

• Animals
• Antineoplastic Agents (adverse effects, therapeutic use)
• Biomarkers, Tumor (antagonists & inhibitors, genetics, metabolism)
• Digestive System Neoplasms (drug therapy, enzymology, genetics, pathology)
• Drug Design
• Drug Discovery (methods)
• Gastrointestinal Neoplasms (drug therapy, enzymology, genetics, pathology)
• Humans
• Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
• Molecular Targeted Therapy
• Mutation
• Precision Medicine
• Protein Kinase Inhibitors (adverse effects, therapeutic use)
• Protein-Tyrosine Kinases (antagonists & inhibitors, genetics, metabolism)
• Signal Transduction (drug effects)
• Treatment Outcome