VEGFR |
Anti-VEGF therapies are most effective against highly vascularized STS and have moderate activity in LMS. |
PDGFR |
Aside from DFSP, the lack of correlative PDGF-related analyses in these trials do not allow for definitive conclusions to be made about the role of anti-PDGF activity in STS patients. |
IFGR1 |
Patients with adipocytic sarcoma may benefit from treatment with single agent cixutumumab. |
FGFR |
Appears promising particularly in AS however there are no FGFR only directed treatments so extrapolation of clinical benefit due to this pathway specifically must be made carefully. |
HDAC |
No data to support single agent usage. Potential use in combination with other agents as an anti-autophagy modality. |
mTOR |
Single-agent mTOR inhibition shows a very modest PFS benefit but no survival advantage. |
MDM2 |
Too soon to tell; may have utility in liposarcoma. |
CDK / CHK1 |
Too soon to tell; potential therapeutic role in patients with CDK- amplified liposarcoma. |
MEK |
Too soon to tell; may have utility in LMS and in sarcomas with NF1 deletion. |
AURKA |
Too soon to tell; may have utility in angiosarcoma. |