The Jeremiah Metzger Lecture: Intelligent design of cancer therapy: Trials and tribulations Journal Article


Author: Fagin, J. A.
Article Title: The Jeremiah Metzger Lecture: Intelligent design of cancer therapy: Trials and tribulations
Abstract: A new era of cancer therapy is now upon us, heralded by fundamental discoveries of disease-causing genetic mutations affecting the activity of protein kinases or other key proteins that can be blocked with reasonable specificity with small molecules. Important therapeutic advances are extending the lives of patients with cancers that were previously refractory to therapy. There are opportunities for significant breakthroughs in many cancer types, including thyroid cancers, which although comparatively rare represent a particularly compelling paradigm of disease that may be well suited for treatment with specific kinase inhibitors.
Keywords: genetics; clinical trial; clinical trials as topic; neoplasm; neoplasms; animal; animals; protein kinase inhibitor; enzymology; chronic myeloid leukemia; breast neoplasms; oncogenes; monoclonal antibody; protein kinase inhibitors; oncogene; antibodies, monoclonal; breast tumor; leukemia, myelogenous, chronic, bcr-abl positive
Journal Title: Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association
Volume: 118
ISSN: 0065-7778
Publisher: American Clinical and Climatological Association  
Date Published: 2007-01-01
Start Page: 253
End Page: 261
Language: English
PUBMED: 18528508
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC1863588
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Notes: --- - "Cited By (since 1996): 2" - "Export Date: 17 November 2011" - "Source: Scopus"
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  1. James A Fagin
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