Combination therapy of tyrosine kinase inhibitor sorafenib with the HSP90 inhibitor onalespib as a novel treatment regimen for thyroid cancer

Lundgren Mortensen, Anja CharlotteUppsala universitet,Cancerprecisionsmedicin,Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (författare)

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, affecting nearly 600,000 new patients worldwide. Treatment with the BRAF inhibitor sorafenib partially prolongs progression-free survival in thyroid cancer patients, but fails to improve overall survival. This study examines enhancing sorafenib efficacy by combination therapy with the novel HSP90 inhibitor onalespib. In vitro efficacy of sorafenib and onalespib monotherapy as well as in combination was assessed in papillary (PTC) and anaplastic (ATC) thyroid cancer cells using cell viability and colony formation assays. Migration potential was studied in wound healing assays. The in vivo efficacy of sorafenib and onalespib therapy was evaluated in mice bearing BHT-101 xenografts. Sorafenib in combination with onalespib significantly inhibited PTC and ATC cell proliferation, decreased metabolic activity and cancer cell migration. In addition, the drug combination approach significantly inhibited tumor growth in the xenograft model and prolonged the median survival. Our results suggest that combination therapy with sorafenib and onalespib could be used as a new therapeutic approach in the treatment of thyroid cancer, significantly improving the results obtained with sorafenib as monotherapy. This approach has the potential to reduce treatment adaptation while at the same time providing therapeutic anti-cancer benefits such as reducing tumor growth and metastatic potential.

Berglund, HannaUppsala universitet,Cancerprecisionsmedicin(Swepub:uu)hanbe377 (författare)
Hariri, MehranUppsala universitet,Cancerprecisionsmedicin(Swepub:uu)mehha904 (författare)
Papalanis, EleftheriosUppsala universitet,Institutionen för immunologi, genetik och patologi (författare)
Malmberg, ChristerUppsala universitet,Infektionsmedicin(Swepub:uu)chrma245 (författare)
Spiegelberg, Diana,1982-Uppsala universitet,Öron-, näs- och halssjukdomar,Cancerprecisionsmedicin(Swepub:uu)diasp673 (författare)
Uppsala universitetCancerprecisionsmedicin (creator_code:org_t)

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