Next-generation therapies for adrenocortical carcinoma

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Almost one decade ago, etoposide, doxorubicin, cisplatin and mitotane (EDP-M) has been established as first-line systemic therapy of metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC). Although heterogeneous, the prognosis of advanced stage ACC is still poor and novel treatments are urgently needed. This article provides a short summary of current systemic ACC treatment and provides a comprehensive overview of new therapeutic approaches that have been investigated in the past years, including drugs targeting the IGF pathway, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, radionuclide treatment, and immunotherapy. The results of most of these trials were disappointing and we will discuss possible reasons why these drugs failed (e.g. drug interactions with mitotane, disease heterogeneity with exceptional responses in very few patients, and resistance mechanisms to immunotherapy). We then will present potential new drug targets that have emerged from many molecular studies (e.g. wnt/β-catenin, cyclin-dependent kinases, PARP1) that may be the foundation of next-generation therapies of ACC.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

Enthalten in:

Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism - 34(2020), 3 vom: 01. Mai, Seite 101434

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Altieri, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Ronchi, Cristina L [VerfasserIn]
Kroiss, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Fassnacht, Martin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

6PLQ3CP4P3
78E4J5IB5J
80168379AG
Adrenal cancer
Cisplatin
Doxorubicin
Etoposide
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Mitotane
Q20Q21Q62J
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Targeted therapy
Treatment
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors

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Date Completed 01.01.2021

Date Revised 01.01.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.beem.2020.101434

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312005407