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ReviewCell chemical biology2017

Emerging Opportunities for Target Discovery in Rare Cancers.

Tanaz Sharifnia, Andrew L Hong, Corrie A Painter, Jesse S Boehm

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Review in Cell chemical biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tanaz SharifniaBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Andrew L HongBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Corrie A PainterBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Electronic address: painter@broadinstitute.org.
Jesse S BoehmBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Electronic address: boehm@broadinstitute.org.

Funding

Treating the P13-Kinase/AKTP50CA101942 · NCI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI David McDermott · 2003 to 2026
$53.4M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA101942
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rare cancers pose unique challenges to research due to their low incidence. Barriers include a scarcity of tissue and experimental models to enable basic research and insufficient patient accrual for clinical studies. Consequently, an understanding of the genetic and cellular features of many rare cancer types and their associated vulnerabilities has been lacking. However, new opportunities are emerging to facilitate discovery of therapeutic targets in rare cancers. Online platforms are allowing patients with rare cancers to organize on an unprecedented scale, tumor genome sequencing is now routinely performed in research and clinical settings, and the efficiency of patient-derived model generation has improved. New CRISPR/Cas9 and small-molecule libraries permit cancer dependency discovery in a rapid and systematic fashion. In parallel, large-scale studies of common cancers now provide reference datasets to help interpret rare cancer profiling data. Together, these advances motivate consideration of new research frameworks to accelerate rare cancer target discovery.

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Drug DiscoveryCRISPR-Cas SystemsHumansImatinib MesylateLeukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL PositiveNeoplasmsPrecision MedicineRNA InterferenceSmall Molecule LibrariesImatinib MesylateSmall Molecule Librarieschordomaconditionally reprogrammed cellsCRISPR/Cas9genomicsnext-generation sequencingorganoidpatient-derived xenograftrare cancersmall-molecule screentarget discovery

Identifiers

PMID28938087
PMCPMC5857178

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