Small-cell lung cancer: What we know, what we need to know and the path forward

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 725-737

  Gazdar, Adi F ^a,b   Bunn, Paul A ^c   Minna, John D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; MYC PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P53; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; RB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RETINOBLASTOMA BINDING PROTEIN; TP53 PROTEIN, HUMAN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME 3P; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIGENETICS; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL; DRUG SCREENING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RETINOBLASTOMA BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 85034813206     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2017.87     Document Type: Review

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