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Posts tagged ‘HER2/HER3’

Can we scale new heights with next generation anti-cancer agents?

One of the fascinating things about ASCO is how early new product development readouts outside of ‘hot’ names (or stock tickers) can often be ignored, forgotten, or simply dismissed as me-toos with seemingly comparable data.

The thing is, two people can look at a mountain and see it differently, much like five blindfolded people might describe various aspects of an elephant based on their perceptions of what’s in front of them – imagine what a tail versus a trunk or ear might produce, for example.

This is also particularly true with targeted therapies, which are undergoing something of a renaissance of late.

In this post, we look at five targets (and tumour types) where we are seeing some solid progress either with single agent therapy or with combination approaches, some of which – be warned – are rather controversial…

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Boston: The 2019 AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics is underway (#Targets19). It’s long been one of our favorite meetings, particularly when held in Boston, and this year there’s a raft of early ideas on offer as to where the targeted therapy field may be going.

Alison Schram, MD. Credit: MSKCC

The success of Ignyta’s entrectinib (acquired by Roche) and Loxo Oncology’s larotrectinib (acquired by Lilly) in targeting NTRK gene fusions has raised interest in targeting other gene fusions, even if they are rare. A new target in a similar vein that has attracted interest recently are fusions involving the neuregulin 1 gene (NRG1).

At this year’s Molecular Targets meeting, Dr Alison Schram, a medical oncologist in the Early Drug Development Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) presented clinical proof of concept data for MCLA-128 (Merus), a bispecific HER2/3 antibody therapy in NRG1 fusion positive cancers.

What did we learn about MCLA-128 and NRG1 at Targets19?

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