Grady William M, Pritchard Colin C
1Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Toxicol Pathol. 2014 Jan;42(1):124-39. doi: 10.1177/0192623313505155. Epub 2013 Oct 31.
The promise of precision medicine is now a clinical reality. Advances in our understanding of the molecular genetics of colorectal cancer (CRC) are leading to the development of a variety of biomarkers that are being used as early detection markers, prognostic markers, and markers for predicting treatment responses. This is no more evident than in the recent advances in testing CRCs for specific molecular alterations in order to guide treatment with the monoclonal antibody therapies cetuximab and panitumumab, which target the epidermal growth factor receptor. In this review, we update a prior review published in 2010 and describe our current understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of CRC and how these alterations relate to emerging biomarkers for early detection and risk stratification (diagnostic markers), prognosis (prognostic markers), and the prediction of treatment responses (predictive markers).
精准医学的前景如今已成为临床现实。我们对结直肠癌(CRC)分子遗传学认识的进展,正促使多种生物标志物得以开发,这些标志物被用作早期检测标志物、预后标志物以及预测治疗反应的标志物。这在近期检测CRC特定分子改变以指导使用针对表皮生长因子受体的单克隆抗体疗法西妥昔单抗和帕尼单抗进行治疗的进展中体现得最为明显。在本综述中,我们更新了2010年发表的一篇先前综述,并阐述了我们目前对CRC分子发病机制的理解,以及这些改变如何与用于早期检测和风险分层的新兴生物标志物(诊断标志物)、预后(预后标志物)和治疗反应预测(预测标志物)相关联。