• Mashup Score: 85

    Passaro and colleagues discuss recent advances in treating EGFR-mutant lung cancer, including methods for detecting disease and tracking therapy response, developments in understanding of resistance mechanisms and ongoing clinical trials to circumvent therapeutic resistance to EGFR targeting.

    Tweet Tweets with this article
    • Excellent review on the mechanisms of acquired EGFR TKI resistance, the methods for monitoring its appearance, as well as efforts to define treatment strategies to overcome resistance @NatureCancer https://t.co/vmOaInFgTB https://t.co/kZ759jYQY2

  • Mashup Score: 3

    Cancer has found a formidable foil in COVID-19, and this has brought to the fore the early concerns that COVID-19 could have a deeper impact on oncology patients. Two studies now provide insights into the enigma surrounding the determinants of the worsening of COVID-19 symptoms in patients with cancer.

    Tweet Tweets with this article
    • ⭐️Determinants of mortality for COVID-19 and cancer @NatureCancer +CCC19 registry @COVID19nCCC, UKCCMP, Gustave Roussy cohort, the TERAVOLT registry, the Curie cohort & Veneto region of Italy @OncoAlert https://t.co/L90bYDYfGO https://t.co/SBWJhvzLzu

  • Mashup Score: 25

    Ferraro et al. report that fatty acid synthesis is needed for brain cancer metastasis and show that blocking this process by inhibiting fatty acid synthase reduces the metastatic growth of breast cancer cells in the brain.

    Tweet Tweets with this article
    • 🔥Two studies @NatureCancer and @Nature by @mvh_lab, #ToddGolub &Co show that fatty acid #metabolism is required for brain #metastasis Find them here! 👇 https://t.co/cX01KQYnbs https://t.co/IADcPtS9dl And the NVs by @almut_schulze &Co: https://t.co/adzYiKzMSC https://t.co/MQ1TPkrMXL