Therapeutic breakthroughs for metastatic thyroid cancer

Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2020 Feb;16(2):77-78. doi: 10.1038/s41574-019-0307-2.

Abstract

Multikinase inhibitors are effective treatments for thyroid cancers, acting primarily as antiangiogenic agents. This year, advances have been made in selective targeting of RET and BRAF in patients with medullary and anaplastic thyroid cancers, respectively. However, Hürthle cell carcinomas have a unique genomic landscape with no dominant truncal drivers, precluding simplistic approaches to therapeutic targeting.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents / administration & dosage*
  • Carcinoma, Papillary / drug therapy*
  • Carcinoma, Papillary / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf / metabolism
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret / metabolism
  • Pyrazoles / administration & dosage
  • Pyridines / administration & dosage
  • Pyrimidines / administration & dosage
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / metabolism

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Pyrazoles
  • Pyridines
  • Pyrimidines
  • pralsetinib
  • selpercatinib
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret
  • RET protein, human
  • BRAF protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf