ALK, ALK receptor tyrosine kinase, 238

N. diseases: 519; N. variants: 41
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE This makes ALK an attractive target for cancer therapy. 30813562 2019
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Spectrum and outcomes of ALK fusions found in thyroid nodules and cancer are not fully characterized. 31539879 2019
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusions: Roles in cancer and therapeutic perspectives. 30675269 2019
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Germline single nucleotide variants were also identified in multiple genes involved in cancer <i>(ALK, FGFR3, FLT3/4, HNF1A, NCOR1</i>, and <i>NOTCH2/3</i>), cancer predisposition (<i>TP53, TSC1</i>, and <i>BRCA1/2)</i>, and genes involved in DNA repair (<i>MSH6, PMS2, POLE</i>, and <i>ATM</i>). 29891519 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Oncogenic <i>ALK</i> fusions occur in several types of cancer and can be effectively treated with ALK inhibitors; however, <i>ALK</i> fusions and treatment response have not been characterized in malignant melanomas. 29054983 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Our findings indicate that enhancer remodeling and altered expression of miRNAs play key roles in cancer drug resistance and suggest that strategies targeting epigenetic pathways represent a potentially effective method for overcoming acquired resistance to cancer therapy.<b>Significance:</b> Epigenetic deregulation drives acquired resistance to ALK inhibitors in ALK-positive lung cancer.<i>Cancer Res; 78(12); 3350-62.©2018 AACR</i>. 29669761 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE A more efficacious long-term strategy may be up-front treatment with a third-generation ALK inhibitor to prevent the emergence of on-target resistance.<i>Cancer Discov; 8(6); 714-29. 29650534 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE In addition, we found that 1% to 3% of samples from cancer sequencing projects harbor <i>KDR</i> somatic mutations located in protein residues frequently mutated in other cancer-relevant kinases, such as EGFR, ABL1, and ALK. 29588308 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE In the literature, there are 59 reports of lung cancer diagnosed during pregnancy, including two cases of cancer with expression of ALK fusion protein and five cases showing epidermal growth factor receptor mutation. 30150445 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE An efficient strategy using cfDNA in cancer diagnostics, the development of more accurate and cost-effective tools to identify informative multiple secondary ALK mutations is clinically required. 30453899 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
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: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Collectively, these findings support a potential role for <i>MIR503HG</i> in cancer cell proliferation through the <i>miR-503</i>/Smurf2/TGFBR axis and indicate that <i>MIR503HG</i> is a potential marker in ALK-negative ALCL. 29758012 2018