Pillar 1 - FTO (new thread), page-3

Current Renal Cancer chemotherapy regimens are listed here.

https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.co...mens/renal-cell-carcinoma-treatment-regimens/

The combination of OPDIVIO and YERVOY seems to be the leading treatment. It looks like Sutent was the previous standard of care.

https://www.opdivo.com/advanced-ren...on/about-opdivo-yervoy/clinical-trial-results






So what's the opportunity for Bisantrene:

1. OPDIVIO is a PD-1 inhibitor
2. PD-1 inhibitors are susceptible to resistance
   https://biomarkerres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40364-020-00212-5
3. Inhibiting FTO can make PD-1 inhibitors work better (that's been shown for Melanoma)
   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10669-0
4. 90% of ccRCC are caused by mutations in the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumour suppressor gene
   https://www.researchgate.net/public...in_Sporadic_Conventional_Renal_Cell_Carcinoma
5. FTO was found to be synthetically lethal in cells with inactive VHL. Inhibition of FTO was found to kill VHL(-) ccRCC cancers.
   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32817424/
   
   

I can see a head to head battle between BMS and Merck and potentially a keen interest in what Bisantrene could do to make their PD-1 inhibitors work better.