Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-0397
Paola D Vermeer, Anthony C Restaino, Jeffrey L Barr, Dan Yaniv, Moran Amit
{"title":"Nerves at Play: The Peripheral Nervous System in Extracranial Malignancies.","authors":"Paola D Vermeer, Anthony C Restaino, Jeffrey L Barr, Dan Yaniv, Moran Amit","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-0397","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-0397","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The exponential growth of the cancer neuroscience field has shown that the host's immune, vascular, and nervous systems communicate with and influence each other in the tumor microenvironment, dictating the cancer malignant phenotype. Unraveling the nervous system's contributions toward this phenotype brings us closer to cancer cures. In this review, we summarize the peripheral nervous system's contributions to cancer. We highlight the effects of nerve recruitment and tumor innervation, the neuro-immune axis, glial cell activity, and neural regulation on cancer development and progression. We also discuss harnessing the neural control of peripheral cancers as a potential therapeutic approach in oncology. Significance: The continued and growing interest in cancer neuroscience by the scientific and medical communities reflects the rapidly accumulating interdisciplinary understanding of the nervous system's modulation of immune, vascular, and cancer cells' functions in malignancies. Understanding these regulatory functions can identify targets for intervention that may already be clinically available for other indications. This potential brings great excitement and hope for patients with cancer worldwide.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"15 1","pages":"52-68"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0887
Brian Belmontes, Katherine K Slemmons, Chun Su, Siyuan Liu, Antonia N Policheni, Jodi Moriguchi, Hong Tan, Fang Xie, Daniel Andrew Aiello, Yajing Yang, Raul Lazaro, Famke Aeffner, Matthew G Rees, Melissa M Ronan, Jennifer A Roth, Mikkel Vestergaard, Sanne Cowland, Jan Andersson, Ian Sarvary, Qing Chen, Pooja Sharma, Patricia Lopez, Nuria Tamayo, Liping H Pettus, Sudipa Ghimire-Rijal, Susmith Mukund, Jennifer R Allen, Jason DeVoss, Angela Coxon, Jordi Rodon, François Ghiringhelli, Nicolas Penel, Hans Prenen, Sanne Glad, Chen-Hua Chuang, Kiana Keyvanjah, Danielle M Townsley, John R Butler, Matthew P Bourbeau, Sean Caenepeel, Paul E Hughes
{"title":"AMG 193, a Clinical Stage MTA-Cooperative PRMT5 Inhibitor, Drives Antitumor Activity Preclinically and in Patients with MTAP-Deleted Cancers.","authors":"Brian Belmontes, Katherine K Slemmons, Chun Su, Siyuan Liu, Antonia N Policheni, Jodi Moriguchi, Hong Tan, Fang Xie, Daniel Andrew Aiello, Yajing Yang, Raul Lazaro, Famke Aeffner, Matthew G Rees, Melissa M Ronan, Jennifer A Roth, Mikkel Vestergaard, Sanne Cowland, Jan Andersson, Ian Sarvary, Qing Chen, Pooja Sharma, Patricia Lopez, Nuria Tamayo, Liping H Pettus, Sudipa Ghimire-Rijal, Susmith Mukund, Jennifer R Allen, Jason DeVoss, Angela Coxon, Jordi Rodon, François Ghiringhelli, Nicolas Penel, Hans Prenen, Sanne Glad, Chen-Hua Chuang, Kiana Keyvanjah, Danielle M Townsley, John R Butler, Matthew P Bourbeau, Sean Caenepeel, Paul E Hughes","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0887","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0887","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the most robust synthetic lethal interactions observed in multiple functional genomic screens has been the dependency on protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) in cancer cells with MTAP deletion. We report the discovery of the clinical stage MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor AMG 193, which preferentially binds PRMT5 in the presence of MTA and has potent biochemical and cellular activity in MTAP-deleted cells across multiple cancer lineages. In vitro, PRMT5 inhibition induces DNA damage, cell cycle arrest, and aberrant alternative mRNA splicing in MTAP-deleted cells. In human cell line and patient-derived xenograft models, AMG 193 induces robust antitumor activity and is well tolerated with no impact on normal hematopoietic cell lineages. AMG 193 synergizes with chemotherapies or the KRAS G12C inhibitor sotorasib in vitro and combination treatment in vivo substantially inhibits tumor growth. AMG 193 is demonstrating promising clinical activity, including confirmed partial responses in patients with MTAP-deleted solid tumors from an ongoing phase 1/2 study. Significance: AMG 193 preferentially inhibits the growth of MTAP-deleted tumor cells by inhibiting PRMT5 when in complex with MTA, thus sparing MTAP wild-type normal cells. AMG 193 shows promise as a targeted therapy in a clinically defined patient population.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":" ","pages":"139-161"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11726016/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1201
Proteeti Bhattacharjee, Esther H Lips, Elinor J Sawyer, E Shelley Hwang, Alastair M Thompson, Jelle Wesseling
{"title":"Conquering Overtreatment of DCIS: Lessons from PRECISION.","authors":"Proteeti Bhattacharjee, Esther H Lips, Elinor J Sawyer, E Shelley Hwang, Alastair M Thompson, Jelle Wesseling","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1201","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As we cannot reliably distinguish indolent, low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) from potentially progressive, high-risk DCIS, all women with DCIS diagnosis undergo intensive treatment without any benefit. The PREvent ductal Carcinoma In Situ Invasive Overtreatment Now team was established to unravel DCIS biology and develop new multidisciplinary approaches for accurate risk stratification to tackle the global problem of DCIS overdiagnosis and overtreatment. See related article by Bressan et al., p. 16 See related article by Stratton et al., p. 22 See related article by Goodwin et al., p. 34.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"15 1","pages":"28-33"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0287
Hiroki Kobayashi, Tadashi Iida, Yosuke Ochiai, Ermanno Malagola, Xiaofei Zhi, Ruth A White, Jin Qian, Feijing Wu, Quin T Waterbury, Ruhong Tu, Biyun Zheng, Jonathan S LaBella, Leah B Zamechek, Atsushi Ogura, Susan L Woods, Daniel L Worthley, Atsushi Enomoto, Timothy C Wang
{"title":"Neuro-Mesenchymal Interaction Mediated by a β2-Adrenergic Nerve Growth Factor Feedforward Loop Promotes Colorectal Cancer Progression.","authors":"Hiroki Kobayashi, Tadashi Iida, Yosuke Ochiai, Ermanno Malagola, Xiaofei Zhi, Ruth A White, Jin Qian, Feijing Wu, Quin T Waterbury, Ruhong Tu, Biyun Zheng, Jonathan S LaBella, Leah B Zamechek, Atsushi Ogura, Susan L Woods, Daniel L Worthley, Atsushi Enomoto, Timothy C Wang","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0287","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0287","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Significance: </strong>Our work demonstrates that the bidirectional interplay between sympathetic nerves and NGF-expressing CAFs drives colorectal tumorigenesis. This study also offers novel mechanistic insights into catecholamine action in colorectal cancer. Inhibiting the neuro-mesenchymal interaction by TRK blockade could be a potential strategy for treating colorectal cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":" ","pages":"202-226"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11729495/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141975087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0306
Birgit Wilding, Lydia Woelflingseder, Anke Baum, Krzysztof Chylinski, Gintautas Vainorius, Neil Gibson, Irene C Waizenegger, Daniel Gerlach, Martin Augsten, Fiona Spreitzer, Yukina Shirai, Masachika Ikegami, Sylvia Tilandyová, Dirk Scharn, Mark A Pearson, Johannes Popow, Anna C Obenauf, Noboru Yamamoto, Shunsuke Kondo, Frans L Opdam, Annemarie Bruining, Shinji Kohsaka, Norbert Kraut, John V Heymach, Flavio Solca, Ralph A Neumüller
{"title":"Zongertinib (BI 1810631), an Irreversible HER2 TKI, Spares EGFR Signaling and Improves Therapeutic Response in Preclinical Models and Patients with HER2-Driven Cancers.","authors":"Birgit Wilding, Lydia Woelflingseder, Anke Baum, Krzysztof Chylinski, Gintautas Vainorius, Neil Gibson, Irene C Waizenegger, Daniel Gerlach, Martin Augsten, Fiona Spreitzer, Yukina Shirai, Masachika Ikegami, Sylvia Tilandyová, Dirk Scharn, Mark A Pearson, Johannes Popow, Anna C Obenauf, Noboru Yamamoto, Shunsuke Kondo, Frans L Opdam, Annemarie Bruining, Shinji Kohsaka, Norbert Kraut, John V Heymach, Flavio Solca, Ralph A Neumüller","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0306","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mutations in ERBB2 (encoding HER2) occur in 2% to 4% of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and confer poor prognosis. ERBB-targeting tyrosine kinase inhibitors, approved for treating other HER2-dependent cancers, are ineffective in HER2-mutant NSCLC due to dose-limiting toxicities or suboptimal potency. We report the discovery of zongertinib (BI 1810631), a covalent HER2 inhibitor. Zongertinib potently and selectively blocks HER2, while sparing EGFR, and inhibits the growth of cells dependent on HER2 oncogenic driver events, including HER2-dependent human cancer cells resistant to trastuzumab deruxtecan. Zongertinib displays potent antitumor activity in HER2-dependent human NSCLC xenograft models and enhances the activities of antibody-drug conjugates and KRASG12C inhibitors without causing obvious toxicities. The preclinical efficacy of zongertinib translates in objective responses in patients with HER2-dependent tumors, including cholangiocarcinoma (SDC4-NRG1 fusion) and breast cancer (V777L HER2 mutation), thus supporting the ongoing clinical development of zongertinib. Significance: HER2-mutant NSCLC poses a challenge in the clinic due to limited options for targeted therapies. Pan-ERBB blockers are limited by wild-type EGFR-mediated toxicity. Zongertinib is a highly potent and wild-type EGFR-sparing HER2 inhibitor that is active in HER2-driven tumors in the preclinical and clinical settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":" ","pages":"119-138"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11726021/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142153172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1776
Linghua Wang, Mingyao Li, Tae Hyun Hwang
{"title":"Correction: The 3D Revolution in Cancer Discovery.","authors":"Linghua Wang, Mingyao Li, Tae Hyun Hwang","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1776","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"15 1","pages":"245"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1686
Dario Bressan, Nicholas Walton, Gregory J Hannon
{"title":"Cancer Research in the Age of Spatial Omics: Lessons from IMAXT.","authors":"Dario Bressan, Nicholas Walton, Gregory J Hannon","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1686","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1686","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Imaging and Molecular Annotation of Xenografts and Tumors Cancer Grand Challenges team was set up with the objective of developing the \"next generation\" of pathology and cancer research by using a combination of single-cell and spatial omics tools to produce 3D molecularly annotated maps of tumors. Its activities overlapped, and in some cases catalyzed, a spatial revolution in biology that saw new technologies being deployed to investigate the roles of tumor heterogeneity and of the tumor micro-environment. See related article by Stratton et al., p. 22 See related article by Bhattacharjee et al., p. 28 See related article by Goodwin et al., p. 34.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"15 1","pages":"16-21"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1494
Urooba Nadeem, Benjamin J Drapkin
{"title":"Atypical Small Cell Lung Cancer: A New Malignancy Characterized by Chromothripsis, Carcinoid Tumors, and Wild-type RB1 and TP53.","authors":"Urooba Nadeem, Benjamin J Drapkin","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1494","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-1494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and pulmonary carcinoid tumors are traditionally seen as unrelated, with SCLC linked to smoking and characterized by biallelic loss of RB1 and TP53 and rapid progression. Rekhtman and colleagues upend these assumptions by discovering an \"atypical\" SCLC that arises in nonsmokers with intact RB1 and TP53 loci, chromothripsis-induced oncogene amplifications on extrachromosomal DNA, and frequent synchronous carcinoid tumors. See related article by Rekhtman et al., p. 83.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"15 1","pages":"8-10"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer discoveryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0016
Richard J A Goodwin, John F Marshall, George Poulogiannis, Mariia Yuneva, Kevin M Brindle, Zoltán Takáts, Owen J Sansom, Josephine Bunch, Simon T Barry
{"title":"Visualizing Cancer Heterogeneity at the Molecular and Cellular Levels: Lessons from Rosetta.","authors":"Richard J A Goodwin, John F Marshall, George Poulogiannis, Mariia Yuneva, Kevin M Brindle, Zoltán Takáts, Owen J Sansom, Josephine Bunch, Simon T Barry","doi":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0016","DOIUrl":"10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding tumor heterogeneity is a major challenge that was recognized as one of the first Cancer Grand Challenges, with a call to provide solutions to visualize tumor heterogeneity. The Rosetta team took on this challenge, exploiting advances in spatial-omics approaches centered around mass spectrometry imaging to map tumor heterogeneity at the cellular and molecular scales with different levels of resolution. See related article by Bressan et al., p. 16 See related article by Stratton et al., p. 22 See related article by Bhattacharjee et al., p. 28.</p>","PeriodicalId":9430,"journal":{"name":"Cancer discovery","volume":"15 1","pages":"34-38"},"PeriodicalIF":29.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}