Aggressive variants of prostate cancer: underlying mechanisms of neuroendocrine transdifferentiation

L Merkens, V Sailer, D Lessel, E Janzen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Prostate cancer is a hormone-driven disease and its tumor cell growth highly relies on
increased androgen receptor (AR) signaling. Therefore, targeted therapy directed against …

Therapy considerations in neuroendocrine prostate cancer: what next?

H Beltran, F Demichelis - Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2021 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Lineage plasticity and histologic transformation to small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer
(NEPC) is an increasingly recognized mechanism of treatment resistance in advanced …

Detecting neuroendocrine prostate cancer through tissue-informed cell-free DNA methylation analysis

JE Berchuck, SC Baca, HM McClure, K Korthauer… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is a resistance phenotype that emerges
in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate adenocarcinoma (CR-PRAD) and has …

A phase 2 trial of avelumab in men with aggressive-variant or neuroendocrine prostate cancer

LC Brown, S Halabi, JA Somarelli… - Prostate Cancer and …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Men with progressive neuroendocrine or aggressive-variant metastatic prostate
cancer (NEPC/AVPC) have a poor prognosis and limited treatment options, and …

Clinical applications of liquid biopsy in prostate cancer: from screening to predictive biomarker

F Ionescu, J Zhang, L Wang - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Liquid biopsy (LB), encompassing the analysis of circulating tumor
material in the blood or urine, has emerged as a powerful tool in the management of …

TCF7L1 regulates cytokine response and neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer

YC Wen, YN Liu, HL Yeh, WH Chen, KC Jiang, SR Lin… - Oncogenesis, 2021 - nature.com
Neuroendocrine differentiation (NED) is associated with WNT signaling activation and can
be significantly observed after failure of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostatic …

Focus on the tumor microenvironment: A seedbed for neuroendocrine prostate cancer

H Zhou, Q He, C Li, BLM Alsharafi, L Deng… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a microecology consisting of tumor and mesenchymal
cells and extracellular matrices. The TME plays important regulatory roles in tumor …

Druggable Metabolic Vulnerabilities are exposed and masked during progression to castration resistant prostate cancer

SYC Choi, CF Ribeiro, Y Wang, M Loda, SR Plymate… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
There is an urgent need for exploring new actionable targets other than androgen receptor
to improve outcome from lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer. Tumor metabolism has …

Treatment-related neuroendocrine prostate carcinoma—diagnostic and molecular correlates

A Gopalan - Advances in Anatomic Pathology, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Treatment-related neuroendocrine prostate cancer is a distinctive category of
prostate cancer that arises after intensive suppression of the androgen receptor by next …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in neuroendocrine prostate cancer research: From model construction to molecular network analyses

X Shui, R Xu, C Zhang, H Meng, J Zhao, C Shi - Laboratory investigation, 2022 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men and has a high incidence and
associated mortality worldwide. It is an androgen-driven disease in which tumor growth is …