Jean Y Tang, Ashfaq A Marghoob
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA. tangy@stanford.edu
Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery 2011 DecA number of therapies that target components of the Hedgehog signaling pathway currently are in clinical trials. The specific molecules that seem most promising in basal cell carcinoma and a number of other cancers are those that target the Smoothened transmembrane protein. The pivotal phase II trials have been completed on the Smoothened inhibitor known as GDC-0449; five other agents (BMS-833923, LDE225, LEQ506, IPI926, and TAK-441) have also shown promise in animal studies and early clinical trials and have shown some efficacy in a variety of cancers that are affected by the Hedgehog signaling pathway. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Jean Y Tang, Ashfaq A Marghoob. Emerging treatments and signaling pathway inhibitors. Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery. 2011 Dec;30(4 Suppl):S14-8
PMID: 22177102
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