Repurposing Simvastatin as a Therapeutic Strategy to Treat p53 Mutant Solid Tumors

M Pereira - 2022 - atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca
For the past 30 years, the standard of care for epithelial ovarian cancer has essentially
remained unchanged with little progress in the development of novel innovative treatments …

[HTML][HTML] Mutant p53 murine oviductal epithelial cells induce progression of high-grade serous carcinoma and are most sensitive to simvastatin therapy in vitro and in …

M Pereira, A Glogova, J Haagsma, J Stewart… - Journal of Ovarian …, 2023 - Springer
High-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) is the most common and aggressive subtype of
epithelial ovarian cancer, characterized by gain-of-function TP53 mutations originating in the …

Repurposing simvastatin to inhibit the mevalonate pathway as a therapeutic strategy to treat high-grade serous ovarian cancer

M Pereira, K Matuszewska, J Haagsma, A Glogova… - Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Introduction: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gynecological cancer, and its
five-year survival rate has not changed appreciably in decades. As such, there is an …

Mevalonate pathway antagonist suppresses formation of serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma and ovarian carcinoma in mouse models

Y Kobayashi, H Kashima, RC Wu, JG Jung… - Clinical Cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Purpose: Statins are among the most frequently prescribed drugs because of their efficacy
and low toxicity in treating hypercholesterolemia. Recently, statins have been reported to …

[HTML][HTML] Ovarian tumour growth is characterized by mevalonate pathway gene signature in an orthotopic, syngeneic model of epithelial ovarian cancer

JB Greenaway, C Virtanen, T Revay, D Hardy… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gynecological cancer and often is not
detected until late stages when cancer cells transcoelomically metastasize to the abdomen …

[HTML][HTML] Mutant p53, the mevalonate pathway and the tumor microenvironment regulate tumor response to statin therapy

M Pereira, K Matuszewska, A Glogova, J Petrik - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary For tumors to initiate and sustain rapid growth, they need to alter their
metabolic reprograming to support this growth. While many oncogenes upregulate …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-tumor effects of mevalonate pathway inhibition in ovarian cancer

A Göbel, VM Zinna, S Dell'Endice, N Jaschke… - BMC cancer, 2020 - Springer
Background Ovarian cancer remains the most fatal gynecological malignancy. Current
therapeutic options are limited due to late diagnosis in the majority of the cases, metastatic …

[HTML][HTML] Lovastatin induces apoptosis of ovarian cancer cells and synergizes with doxorubicin: potential therapeutic relevance

A Martirosyan, JW Clendening, CA Goard, LZ Penn - BMC cancer, 2010 - Springer
Background Ovarian carcinoma is a rarely curable disease, for which new treatment options
are required. As agents that block HMG-CoA reductase and the mevalonate pathway, the …

[HTML][HTML] The HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, simvastatin, exhibits anti-metastatic and anti-tumorigenic effects in ovarian cancer

JE Stine, H Guo, X Sheng, X Han, MN Schointuch… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ovarian cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States.
The mevalonate pathway is thought to be a potential oncogenic pathway in the …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary geranylgeraniol can limit the activity of pitavastatin as a potential treatment for drug-resistant ovarian cancer

E de Wolf, MI Abdullah, SM Jones, K Menezes… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Pre-clinical and retrospective studies of patients using statins to reduce plasma cholesterol
have suggested that statins may be useful to treat cancer. However, prospective clinical …