CSC radioresistance: a therapeutic challenge to improve radiotherapy effectiveness in cancer

MA Olivares-Urbano, C Griñán-Lisón, JA Marchal… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Radiotherapy (RT) is a modality of oncologic treatment that can be used to treat
approximately 50% of all cancer patients either alone or in combination with other treatment …

Hallmarks of cancer stem cell metabolism

P Sancho, D Barneda, C Heeschen - British journal of cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Cancer cells adapt cellular metabolism to cope with their high proliferation rate. Instead of
primarily using oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), cancer cells use less efficient …

Triple-negative breast cancer: current understanding and future therapeutic breakthrough targeting cancer stemness

KL Lee, YC Kuo, YS Ho, YH Huang - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is cancer that tested as negative for estrogen
receptors (ER), progesterone receptors (PR), and excess human epidermal growth factor …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting breast cancer stem cells

L Zhang, W Chen, S Liu, C Chen - International journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The potential roles of breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) in tumor initiation and recurrence
have been recognized for many decades. Due to their strong capacity for self-renewal and …

Cancer stem cells (CSCs): metabolic strategies for their identification and eradication

EM De Francesco, F Sotgia, MP Lisanti - Biochemical Journal, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity is one of the most relevant features of cancer cells
within different tumor types and is responsible for treatment failure. Cancer stem cells …

Targeting energy metabolism in cancer stem cells: progress and challenges in leukemia and solid tumors

CL Jones, A Inguva, CT Jordan - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant stem cells have long been considered a key therapeutic target in leukemia.
Therapeutic strategies designed to target the fundamental biology of leukemia stem cells …

Metabolic plasticity in chemotherapy resistance

MA Desbats, I Giacomini, T Prayer-Galetti… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapy is the first cause of cancer-associated death.
Thus, new strategies to deal with the evasion of drug response and to improve clinical …

Metabolic dependencies and targets in ovarian cancer

Y Zhang, Y Wang, G Zhao, S Orsulic, D Matei - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reprogramming of cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. Cancer cells undergo
metabolic adaptations to maintain tumorigenicity and survive under the attack of immune …

Cancer stem cell metabolism and potential therapeutic targets

V Snyder, TC Reed-Newman, L Arnold… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Malignant tumors contain heterogeneous populations of cells in various states of
proliferation and differentiation. The presence of cancer stem or initiating cells is a well …

Glioblastoma Stem-Like Cells, Metabolic Strategy to Kill a Challenging Target

D Garnier, O Renoult, MC Alves-Guerra, F Paris… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over the years, substantial evidence has definitively confirmed the existence of cancer stem-
like cells within tumors such as Glioblastoma (GBM). The importance of Glioblastoma stem …