| Literature DB >> 23455378 |
Kenta Masui1, Beatrice Gini, Jill Wykosky, Ciro Zanca, Paul S Mischel, Frank B Furnari, Webster K Cavenee.
Abstract
Chemotherapy and molecularly targeted approaches represent two very different modes of cancer treatment and each is associated with unique benefits and limitations. Both types of therapy share the overarching limitation of the emergence of drug resistance, which prevents these drugs from eliciting lasting clinical benefit. This review will provide an overview of the various mechanisms of resistance to each of these classes of drugs and examples of drug combinations that have been tested clinically. This analysis supports the contention that understanding modes of resistance to both chemotherapy and molecularly targeted therapies may be very useful in selecting those drugs of each class that will have complementing mechanisms of sensitivity and thereby represent reasonable combination therapies.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23455378 PMCID: PMC3616676 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgt086
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Carcinogenesis ISSN: 0143-3334 Impact factor: 4.944