Article
"Undruggable KRAS": druggable after all.
Genes & development - 7 Jan 2025
Cox Adrienne D, Der Channing J
Abstract excerpt
The three RAS genes (HRAS, KRAS, and NRAS) comprise the most frequently mutated oncogene family in cancer. KRAS is the predominant isoform mutated in cancer and is most prevalently mutated in major causes of cancer deaths including lung, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. Despite extensive academic and industry efforts to target KRAS, it would take nearly four decades before approval of the first clinically...
Topics
- Humans
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Molecular Targeted Therapy
