title: Factors underlying sensitivity of cancers to small-molecule kinase inhibitors.
abstract: Selective small-molecule kinase inhibitors have emerged over the past decade as an important class of anti-cancer agents, and have demonstrated impressive clinical efficacy in several different diseases, including relatively common malignancies such as breast and lung cancer. However, clinical benefit is typically limited to a fraction of treated patients. Genomic features of individual tumours contribute significantly to such clinical responses, and these seem to vary tremendously across patients. Additional factors, including pharmacogenomics, the tumour microenvironment and rapidly acquired drug resistance, also contribute to the clinical sensitivity of various cancers, and should be considered and applied in the development and use of new kinase inhibitors.
authors.affiliation: Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Pasi A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Jänne
authors.forename: Nathanael
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Settleman
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015195:Drug Design; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D009857:Oncogenes / Q000187:drug effects; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries; D011494:Protein Kinases