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Anticancer autophagy inhibitors attract ‘resurgent’ interest

Despite industry’s past setbacks with autophagy inhibitors, preclinical and clinical findings are starting to revitalize a once written-off strategy.
  1. Elie Dolgin
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The idea of targeting autophagy, the cell’s recycling process, to treat cancer is experiencing a comeback. Years after most large pharmaceutical companies abandoned the therapeutic strategy for oncology applications, several academic groups and fledgling companies have begun zeroing in on cancer types and drug regimens in which autophagy inhibition may still hold promise.

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 18, 408-410 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-019-00072-1

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  • Correction 01 May 2019: The text describing a single-arm skin cancer study evaluating trametinib plus Novartis’s BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib with the addition of hydroxychloroquine for patients with BRAF-mutant melanoma has been revised to reflect that the study is still ongoing rather than completed.

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