A Tale of Two Approaches: Complementary Mechanisms of Cytotoxic and Targeted Therapy Resistance May Inform Next Generation Cancer Treatments
Cet article passe en revue les perspectives thérapeutiques offertes par les travaux récents sur les mécanismes de résistance aux agents cytotoxiques et aux thérapies ciblées
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 chemo- 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.
http://carcin.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/03/01/carcin.bgt086.abstract