Aggressive variants of castration-resistant prostate cancer

H Beltran, S Tomlins, A Aparicio, V Arora… - Clinical Cancer …, 2014 - AACR
A subset of patients with advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer may eventually
evolve into an androgen receptor (AR)–independent phenotype, with a clinical picture …

Application of prostate cancer models for preclinical study: advantages and limitations of cell lines, patient-derived xenografts, and three-dimensional culture of patient …

T Namekawa, K Ikeda, K Horie-Inoue, S Inoue - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Various preclinical models have been developed to clarify the pathophysiology of prostate
cancer (PCa). Traditional PCa cell lines from clinical metastatic lesions, as exemplified by …

[PDF][PDF] Androgen receptor pathway-independent prostate cancer is sustained through FGF signaling

EG Bluemn, IM Coleman, JM Lucas, RT Coleman… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is a distinctive feature of prostate carcinoma (PC) and
represents the major therapeutic target for treating metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) …

An androgen receptor switch underlies lineage infidelity in treatment-resistant prostate cancer

A Davies, S Nouruzi, D Ganguli, T Namekawa… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancers adapt to increasingly potent targeted therapies by reprogramming their phenotype.
Here we investigated such a phenomenon in prostate cancer, in which tumours can escape …

The master neural transcription factor BRN2 is an androgen receptor–suppressed driver of neuroendocrine differentiation in prostate cancer

JL Bishop, D Thaper, S Vahid, A Davies, K Ketola… - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Mechanisms controlling the emergence of lethal neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC),
especially those that are consequences of treatment-induced suppression of the androgen …

Platinum-based chemotherapy for variant castrate-resistant prostate cancer

AM Aparicio, AL Harzstark, PG Corn, S Wen… - Clinical cancer …, 2013 - AACR
Purpose: Clinical features characteristic of small-cell prostate carcinoma
(SCPC),“anaplastic,” often emerge during the progression of prostate cancer. We sought to …

Androgen deprivation promotes neuroendocrine differentiation and angiogenesis through CREB-EZH2-TSP1 pathway in prostate cancers

Y Zhang, D Zheng, T Zhou, H Song, M Hulsurkar… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The incidence of aggressive neuroendocrine prostate cancers (NEPC) related to androgen-
deprivation therapy (ADT) is rising. NEPC is still poorly understood, such as its …

High fidelity patient-derived xenografts for accelerating prostate cancer discovery and drug development

D Lin, AW Wyatt, H Xue, Y Wang, X Dong, A Haegert… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
Standardized and reproducible preclinical models that recapitulate the dynamics of prostate
cancer are urgently needed. We established a bank of transplantable patient-derived …

Temporal evolution of cellular heterogeneity during the progression to advanced AR-negative prostate cancer

NJ Brady, AM Bagadion, R Singh, V Conteduca… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite advances in the development of highly effective androgen receptor (AR)-directed
therapies for the treatment of men with advanced prostate cancer, acquired resistance to …

Rb loss is characteristic of prostatic small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma

HL Tan, A Sood, HA Rahimi, W Wang, N Gupta… - Clinical cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: Small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the prostate is likely to become
increasingly common with recent advances in pharmacologic androgen suppression. Thus …