Metastatic heterogeneity of breast cancer: Molecular mechanism and potential therapeutic targets

Y Liang, H Zhang, X Song, Q Yang - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies among women throughout the world
and is the major cause of most cancer-related deaths. Several explanations account for the …

Brain metastases

AS Achrol, RC Rennert, C Anders, R Soffietti… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
An estimated 20% of all patients with cancer will develop brain metastases, with the majority
of brain metastases occurring in those with lung, breast and colorectal cancers, melanoma …

Breast cancer brain metastasis: molecular mechanisms and directions for treatment

RMSM Pedrosa, DA Mustafa, R Soffietti… - Neuro …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The development of brain metastasis (BM) of breast cancer is usually a late event with
deleterious effect on the prognosis. Treatment options for intracerebral seeding of breast …

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors for brain metastases in HER2-positive breast cancer

R Duchnowska, S Loibl, J Jassem - Cancer treatment reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Approximately 30–50% of advanced HER2-positive breast cancer patients will
develop central nervous system (CNS) metastases, with an annual risk of around 10%, and …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for breast cancer brain metastases: a systematic review

L Koniali, A Hadjisavvas, A Constantinidou… - Oncotarget, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Brain metastasis (BM) is an increasingly common and devastating
complication of breast cancer (BC). Methods: A systematic literature search of EMBASE and …

Prognostic factors of brain metastasis and survival among HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients: a systematic literature review

MD Hackshaw, HE Danysh, M Henderson, E Wang… - Bmc Cancer, 2021 - Springer
Background Patients with breast cancer who overexpress the human epidermal growth
factor receptor 2 (HER2) and subsequently develop brain metastasis (BM) typically …

Association between AT1 and AT2 angiotensin II receptor expression with cell proliferation and angiogenesis in operable breast cancer

O Arrieta, C Villarreal-Garza, G Vizcaíno, B Pineda… - Tumor Biology, 2015 - Springer
Angiotensin II (ANGII) has been associated with vascular proliferation in tumor and non-
tumor models through its receptors AT1 and AT2. Our objective was to determine AT1 and …

[HTML][HTML] miR-20b is up-regulated in brain metastases from primary breast cancers

A Ahmad, KR Ginnebaugh, S Sethi, W Chen, R Ali… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Brain metastases are frequent in patients with advanced breast cancer and are associated
with poor prognosis. However, unique molecular biomarkers have not yet been established …

A comparison of DNA mutation and copy number profiles of primary breast cancers and paired brain metastases for identifying clinically relevant genetic alterations in …

M Tyran, N Carbuccia, S Garnier, A Guille, J Adelaïde… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Improving the systemic treatment of brain metastases (BM) in primary breast cancer (PBC) is
impaired by the lack of genomic characterization of BM. To estimate the concordance of …

Molecular aspects of brain metastases in breast cancer

B Tomasik, M Bieńkowski, Z Górska, K Gutowska… - Cancer Treatment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Brain metastases (BM) are a common and devastating manifestation of breast cancer (BC).
BM are particularly frequent in the HER2-positive and triple-negative breast cancer …