Human prostate cancer risk factors

DG Bostwick, HB Burke, D Djakiew… - … Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer has the highest prevalence of any nonskin cancer in the human body, with
similar likelihood of neoplastic foci found within the prostates of men around the world …

Cholesteryl ester accumulation induced by PTEN loss and PI3K/AKT activation underlies human prostate cancer aggressiveness

S Yue, J Li, SY Lee, HJ Lee, T Shao, B Song, L Cheng… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Altered lipid metabolism is increasingly recognized as a signature of cancer cells. Enabled
by label-free Raman spectromicroscopy, we performed quantitative analysis of lipogenesis …

Differential androgen receptor signals in different cells explain why androgen-deprivation therapy of prostate cancer fails

Y Niu, TM Chang, S Yeh, WL Ma, YZ Wang, C Chang - Oncogene, 2010 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related death in the western world.
Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for the suppression of androgens binding to the …

A novel androgen receptor splice variant is up-regulated during prostate cancer progression and promotes androgen depletion–resistant growth

Z Guo, X Yang, F Sun, R Jiang, DE Linn, H Chen… - Cancer research, 2009 - AACR
The androgen receptor (AR) plays a key role in progression to incurable androgen ablation–
resistant prostate cancer (PCA). We have identified three novel AR splice variants lacking …

Androgen-induced TMPRSS2 activates matriptase and promotes extracellular matrix degradation, prostate cancer cell invasion, tumor growth, and metastasis

CJ Ko, CC Huang, HY Lin, CP Juan, SW Lan, HY Shyu… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Dysregulation of androgen signaling and pericellular proteolysis is necessary for prostate
cancer progression, but the links between them are still obscure. In this study, we show how …

The hippo pathway effector YAP regulates motility, invasion, and castration-resistant growth of prostate cancer cells

L Zhang, S Yang, X Chen, S Stauffer, F Yu… - … and cellular biology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Yes-associated protein (YAP) is an effector of the Hippo tumor suppressor pathway. The
functional significance of YAP in prostate cancer has remained elusive. In this study, we first …

Androgen-independent prostate cancer cells acquire the complete steroidogenic potential of synthesizing testosterone from cholesterol

PR Dillard, MF Lin, SA Khan - Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 2008 - Elsevier
The proliferation and differentiation of normal prostate epithelial cells depends upon the
action of androgens produced by the testis. Prostate cancers retain the ability to respond to …

Androgen deprivation induces human prostate epithelial neuroendocrine differentiation of androgen-sensitive LNCaP cells

TC Yuan, S Veeramani, FF Lin… - Endocrine-related …, 2006 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Neuroendocrine (NE) cells are the minor cell populations in normal prostate epithelial
compartments. During prostate carcinogenesis, the number of NE cells in malignant lesions …

Quantitative proteomics reveals that enzymes of the ketogenic pathway are associated with prostate cancer progression

P Saraon, D Cretu, N Musrap, GS Karagiannis… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2013 - ASBMB
Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy and the second leading cause of cancer-
related deaths in men. One common treatment is androgen-deprivation therapy, which …

Nuclear Factor-κB Is Constitutively Activated in Prostate Cancer In vitro and Is Overexpressed in Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Adenocarcinoma of the …

C Sweeney, L Li, R Shanmugam, P Bhat-Nakshatri… - Clinical Cancer …, 2004 - AACR
Purpose: The transcription factor nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) promotes the production of
angiogenic, antiapoptotic, and prometastatic factors that are involved in carcinogenesis …