Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Functionally, overexpression of ALK<sup>ATI</sup> promoted cancer stem cell (CSC)-like properties in sarcoma cells by promoting sphere formation and upregulating the expression of stem cell markers. 31462708 2020
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In sum, we reveal for the first time the mechanism of cancer drug addiction in ALK-positive ALCL and the benefit of scheduled intermittent dosing in high-risk patient-derived tumors in vivo. 31804622 2020
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a tyrosine kinase receptor that belongs to the insulin receptor superfamily, and is normally expressed in neural cells, but has been detected in several malignancies. 31393373 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Our findings are applicable to other types of cancer where IGF-IR and ALK are simultaneously expressed. 31340850 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE These included crizotinib for ALK-EML4 fusion in a malignancy of undefined origin patient and everolimus for AKT3 amplification in a uterine sarcoma patient. 30448735 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Although several ALK inhibitors, including crizotinib, ceritinib, and alectinib, are approved for cancer treatment, their long-term benefit is often limited by the cancer's acquisition of resistance owing to secondary point mutations in ALK. 31425908 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The combined inhibition of MEK/ERK, ALK and GSK3 was revealed to be an effective measure for eliminating cancer stem cells. 30942451 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusions: Roles in cancer and therapeutic perspectives. 30675269 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Optimization of the 2-aminopyridine derivatives led to the identification of hit 18d displaying a significant growth inhibition against a variety of ALK-addicted cancer cells. 31569004 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The safety and serious adverse events of approved ALK inhibitors in malignancies: a meta-analysis. 31190983 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Mutations in 59 cancer-associated genes and fusions of ALK and ROS1 were analyzed to understand the molecular features of young patients with lung adenocarcinoma. 31387567 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Spectrum and outcomes of ALK fusions found in thyroid nodules and cancer are not fully characterized. 31539879 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Three of the remaining six patients without ALK rearrangement had stage IV cancer and received cytotoxic chemotherapies. 30591488 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE To our knowledge, this is the first report to suggest an association between cancer stem-like cells and histological transformation in ALK rearrangement-positive lung cancer. 30900377 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Real World Experience of Crizotinib in 104 Patients With ALK Rearrangement Non-small-cell Lung Cancer in a Single Chinese Cancer Center. 31696059 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Crizotinib, a small molecule inhibitor of c-Met and ALK, is a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug with reported efficacy in the treatment of cancer. 31278140 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE This makes ALK an attractive target for cancer therapy. 30813562 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Through these mechanisms, ALK fusion proteins enable a transcriptional programme that drives the pathogenesis of a range of ALK-related malignancies. 31366041 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Digital PCR analyses combined with microdissection after IHC staining for EMT markers revealed that <i>ALK</i> L1196M was predominantly detected in epithelial-type tumor cells, indicating that mesenchymal phenotype and <i>ALK</i> mutation can coexist as independent mechanisms underlying ALK inhibitor-resistant cancers. 30737231 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Whereas numerous ALK fusion genes have been reported in different malignancies, in neuroblastoma ALK is mainly activated through point mutations. 30778092 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLC) have the best prognosis among metastatic pulmonary malignancies, with a median patient survival currently exceeding 5 years. 31139322 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Gilteritinib also binds to and inhibits the wild-type and mutated forms of ALK, resulting in reduced tumour cell proliferation in cancer cell types that overexpress the mutation. 30721452 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a tyrosine kinase receptor that is a clinical target of major interest in cancer. 30459281 2018
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Using records from the National Cancer Data Base, we studied overall survival of CD20-negative variants of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL): primary effusion (PEL, N = 228), plasmablastic (PBL, N = 481), ALK-positive large B-cell (ALK + LBLC, N = 15), and human herpesvirus-8-positive DLBCL (HHV8 + DLBCL, N = 77). 29019447 2018
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE We have demonstrated that cancer cell plasticity exists in ALK+ALCL, a type of hematopoietic cancer. 29609590 2018