The development of androgen-independent prostate cancer

BJ Feldman, D Feldman - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2001 - nature.com
The normal prostate and early-stage prostate cancers depend on androgens for growth and
survival, and androgen ablation therapy causes them to regress. Cancers that are not cured …

Biology of progressive, castration-resistant prostate cancer: directed therapies targeting the androgen-receptor signaling axis

HI Scher, CL Sawyers - Journal of clinical oncology, 2005 - ascopubs.org
Prostate cancers that are progressing on medical and surgical therapies designed to ablate
the action of androgens continue to express androgen receptor (AR) and to depend on …

PC3 is a cell line characteristic of prostatic small cell carcinoma

S Tai, Y Sun, JM Squires, H Zhang, WK Oh… - The …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The majority of the prostatic cancers are adenocarcinomas characterized by
glandular formation and the expression of luminal differentiation markers androgen receptor …

Molecular genetics of prostate cancer

C Abate-Shen, MM Shen - Genes & development, 2000 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Prostate cancer afflicts one man in nine over the age of 65 and represents the most
frequently diagnosed cancer in American men (Coffey 1993). Early detection through serum …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative genomic and proteomic analysis of prostate cancer reveals signatures of metastatic progression

S Varambally, J Yu, B Laxman, DR Rhodes, R Mehra… - Cancer cell, 2005 - cell.com
Molecular profiling of cancer at the transcript level has become routine. Large-scale analysis
of proteomic alterations during cancer progression has been a more daunting task. Here, we …

Expression of epidermal growth factor receptor correlates with disease relapse and progression to androgen-independence in human prostate cancer

G Di Lorenzo, G Tortora, FP D'Armiento, G De Rosa… - Clinical cancer …, 2002 - AACR
Purpose: The transforming growth factor α-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)
autocrine pathway has been implicated in prostate cancer cell growth. Amplification and/or …

[HTML][HTML] Androgen receptor gene amplification and protein expression in hormone refractory prostate cancer

J Edwards, NS Krishna, KM Grigor… - British journal of cancer, 2003 - nature.com
This study examined androgen receptor (AR) gene amplification and protein expression in
102 matched paired hormone sensitive and resistant tumours from 51 patients. AR gene …

Quercetin inhibits the expression and function of the androgen receptor in LNCaP prostate cancer cells

N Xing, Y Chen, SH Mitchell, CYF Young - Carcinogenesis, 2001 - academic.oup.com
The androgen receptor (AR) is involved in the development and progression of prostate
cancer. In order to find new compounds that may present novel mechanisms to attenuate the …

Up‐regulation of Wnt‐1 and β‐catenin production in patients with advanced metastatic prostate carcinoma: Potential pathogenetic and prognostic implications

G Chen, N Shukeir, A Potti, K Sircar… - … Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Wnt‐1 and β‐catenin expression levels play an important role in several
malignancies. The authors determined the level of production of Wnt‐1 and β‐catenin in …

Her-2-neu expression and progression toward androgen independence in human prostate cancer

S Signoretti, R Montironi, J Manola… - Journal of the …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Background: Human prostate cancers are initially androgen dependent but ultimately
become androgen independent. Overexpression of the Her-2-neu receptor tyrosine kinase …