Abstract:
:Combination therapies are used in the clinic to achieve cure, better efficacy and to circumvent resistant disease in patients. Initial assessment of the effect of such combinations, usually of two agents, is frequently performed using in vitro assays. In this review, we give a short summary of the types of analyses that were presented during the Preclinical and Early-phase Clinical Pharmacology Course of the Pharmacology and Molecular Mechanisms Group, European Organization for Research and Treatment on Cancer, that can be used to determine the efficacy of drug combinations. The effect of a combination treatment can be calculated using mathematical equations based on either the Loewe additivity or Bliss independence model, or a combination of both, such as Chou and Talalay's median-drug effect model. Interactions can be additive, synergistic (more than additive), or antagonistic (less than additive). Software packages CalcuSyn (also available as CompuSyn) and Combenefit are designed to calculate the extent of the combined effects. Interestingly, the application of machine-learning methods in the prediction of combination treatments, which can include pharmacogenomic, genetic, metabolomic and proteomic profiles, might contribute to further refinement of combination regimens. However, more research is needed to apply appropriate rules of machine learning methods to ensure correct predictive models.
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Anticancer Resjournal_title
Anticancer researchauthors
El Hassouni B,Mantini G,Li Petri G,Capula M,Boyd L,Weinstein HNW,Vallés-Marti A,Kouwenhoven MCM,Giovannetti E,Westerman BA,Peters GJ,EORTC PAMM Group.doi
10.21873/anticanres.13472subject
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2019-07-01 00:00:00pages
3303-3309issue
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0250-7005issn
1791-7530pii
39/7/3303journal_volume
39pub_type
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doi:
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doi:
更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
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doi:
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doi:
更新日期:2014-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Anticancer research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
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更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
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doi:
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更新日期:2000-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Anticancer research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
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