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The research progress in precision cancer medicines

  • HUANG Yaoqing ,
  • WANG Chunli ,
  • LI Ziyan ,
  • MAO Yanyan ,
  • LIU Lili
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  • Information Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China

Received date: 2021-07-21

  Revised date: 2022-05-18

  Online published: 2022-09-02

Abstract

With the rapid development of the next generation sequencing (NGS) technology and cancer biology, genomic biomarker-based personalized anti-cancer medicines have become an important direction of drug discovery. In this review, we first briefly introduce the excellent therapeutic effects of personalized anti-tumor medicines on non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, melanoma and leukemia. Next, we comprehensively explore current tumor agnostic anticancer medicines and highlight that therapeutic medicines based on biomarkers rather than tumor tissue will become one of the directions of antitumor drug discovery. Finally, after introducing the novel clinical trial design and the new technology of PROTACs, we argue that the emergence of new ideas and new technologies will promote the development of antitumor precision medicines and help solve the problem of drug-resistance and "undruggable" targets.

Cite this article

HUANG Yaoqing , WANG Chunli , LI Ziyan , MAO Yanyan , LIU Lili . The research progress in precision cancer medicines[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2022 , 40(13) : 86 -95 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2022.

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