The epidemiology of prostate cancer

CH Pernar, EM Ebot, KM Wilson… - Cold Spring …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Prostate cancer is a major cause of disease and mortality among men, and each year 1.6
million men are diagnosed with and 366,000 men die of prostate cancer. In this review, we …

Metabolic pathway analysis using stable isotopes in patients with cancer

CR Bartman, B Faubert, JD Rabinowitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is central to malignant transformation and cancer cell growth. How
tumours use nutrients and the relative rates of reprogrammed pathways are areas of intense …

Statins as anticancer agents in the era of precision medicine

J Longo, JE van Leeuwen, M Elbaz, E Branchard… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Statins are widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that inhibit HMG-CoA reductase
(HMGCR), the rate-limiting enzyme of the mevalonate metabolic pathway. Multiple lines of …

[HTML][HTML] Cholesteryl ester accumulation induced by PTEN loss and PI3K/AKT activation underlies human prostate cancer aggressiveness

S Yue, J Li, SY Lee, HJ Lee, T Shao, B Song, L Cheng… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Altered lipid metabolism is increasingly recognized as a signature of cancer cells. Enabled
by label-free Raman spectromicroscopy, we performed quantitative analysis of lipogenesis …

[HTML][HTML] Statin use and reduced cancer-related mortality

SF Nielsen, BG Nordestgaard… - New England Journal of …, 2012 - Mass Medical Soc
Background A reduction in the availability of cholesterol may limit the cellular proliferation
required for cancer growth and metastasis. We tested the hypothesis that statin use begun …

[HTML][HTML] Antioxidant effects of statins by modulating Nrf2 and Nrf2/HO-1 signaling in different diseases

A Mansouri, Ž Reiner, M Ruscica… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Statins are competitive inhibitors of hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase and
have been used to treat elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) for almost four …

Lipid rafts as major platforms for signaling regulation in cancer

F Mollinedo, C Gajate - Advances in biological regulation, 2015 - Elsevier
Cell signaling does not apparently occur randomly over the cell surface, but it seems to be
integrated very often into cholesterol-rich membrane domains, termed lipid rafts. Membrane …

The high prevalence of undiagnosed prostate cancer at autopsy: implications for epidemiology and treatment of prostate cancer in the Prostate‐specific Antigen‐era

JL Jahn, EL Giovannucci… - International journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) screening detects many cancers that would
have otherwise gone undiagnosed. To estimate the prevalence of unsuspected prostate …

[HTML][HTML] Iron behaving badly: inappropriate iron chelation as a major contributor to the aetiology of vascular and other progressive inflammatory and degenerative …

DB Kell - BMC medical genomics, 2009 - Springer
Background The production of peroxide and superoxide is an inevitable consequence of
aerobic metabolism, and while these particular'reactive oxygen species'(ROSs) can exhibit a …

Metformin use and all-cause and prostate cancer–specific mortality among men with diabetes

D Margel, DR Urbach, LL Lipscombe… - Journal of Clinical …, 2013 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To evaluate the association between cumulative duration of metformin use after
prostate cancer (PC) diagnosis and all-cause and PC-specific mortality among patients with …