The convergence between targeted therapies and immunotherapies with genomics has already started in many areas of cancer research – we can imagine the intersections more as a Venn diagram than as separate entities these days.

Lobster pots on the shore

While former graveyards of R&D such as metastatic melanoma and lung cancer have seen a dramatic revival in positive trials over the last five years, things have languished somewhat in other areas.

Womens cancers such as high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) and triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) have seen some new developments with the advent of PARP inhibitors as monotherapy or maintenance, but there is still a ways to go in terms of overcoming resistance and improving outcomes further.

You might be puzzled what on earth lobster pots have to do with cancer research? In short it’s an apt analogy from life because while there is much promise in the right situation (under the sea in a good situation), they can also look like a helpless mess (abandoned on the shore).  Oncology R&D is a bit like that too and finding the right situation viz molecule development and clinical trial design, not to mention discontinuation is very similar in that respect too.

In our latest AACR18 Preview, we take a look at an underappreciated oncology drug class and look at the opportunities for future combinations that may take a few readers by surprise…

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