Advances in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of action of cisplatin in cancer therapy

PB Tchounwou, S Dasari, FK Noubissi… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Cisplatin and other platinum-based chemotherapeutic drugs have been used extensively for
the treatment of human cancers such as bladder, blood, breast, cervical, esophageal, head …

PI3K-AKT-mTOR and NFκB pathways in ovarian cancer: implications for targeted therapeutics

A Ghoneum, N Said - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in the United States, with an
estimated 22,530 new cases and 13,980 deaths in 2019. Recent studies have indicated that …

[HTML][HTML] Chemoresistance and targeted therapies in ovarian and endometrial cancers

K Brasseur, N Gévry, E Asselin - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Gynecological cancers are known for being very aggressive at their advanced stages.
Indeed, the survival rate of both ovarian and endometrial cancers is very low when …

Recent advances with precision medicine treatment for breast cancer including triple-negative sub-type

MA Subhan, F Parveen, H Shah, SSK Yalamarty… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The progress of next-generation sequencing technologies has raised
huge expectations for precision-medicine therapy approaches in breast cancer and triple …

Cancer plasticity: the role of mRNA translation

LJ Lee, D Papadopoli, M Jewer, S Del Rincon… - Trends in cancer, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor progression is associated with dedifferentiated histopathologies concomitant with
cancer cell survival within a changing, and often hostile, tumor microenvironment. These …

Is autophagy always a barrier to cisplatin therapy?

J Xu, DA Gewirtz - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cisplatin has long been a first-line chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of cancer,
largely for solid tumors. During the course of the past two decades, autophagy has been …

Long noncoding RNA GAS5, which acts as a tumor suppressor via microRNA 21, regulates cisplatin resistance expression in cervical cancer

Q Wen, Y Liu, H Lyu, X Xu, Q Wu, N Liu, Q Yin… - International Journal of …, 2017 - ijgc.bmj.com
Objectives The aims of this study were to investigate the functions of GAS5 as a tumor
suppressor in cervical cancer and explore the mechanism. Methods The expression of …

Drug resistance and cancer stem cells: the shared but distinct roles of hypoxia‐inducible factors HIF 1α and HIF 2α

JP Schöning, M Monteiro, W Gu - Clinical and Experimental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Chemotherapy resistance is a major contributor to poor treatment responses and tumour
relapse, the development of which has been strongly linked to the action of cancer stem …

Clinical relevance of TP53 hotspot mutations in high-grade serous ovarian cancers

M Tuna, Z Ju, K Yoshihara, CI Amos, JL Tanyi… - British journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
Background Mutation of TP53 is the most frequent genetic alteration in high-grade serous
ovarian cancer (HGSOC). The impact of hotspot mutations of TP53 and protein levels on …

Targeting AKT/PKB to improve treatment outcomes for solid tumors

M Iida, PM Harari, DL Wheeler, M Toulany - … Research/Fundamental and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The serine/threonine kinase AKT, also known as protein kinase B (PKB), is the major
substrate to phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and consists of three paralogs: AKT1 (PKBα) …