Oncology during the COVID‑19 pandemic: challenges, dilemmas and the psychosocial impact on cancer patients

K Tsamakis, M Gavriatopoulou… - Oncology …, 2020 - spandidos-publications.com
COVID‑19 has caused unprecedented societal turmoil, triggering a rapid, still ongoing,
transformation of healthcare provision on a global level. In this new landscape, it is highly …

Novel targeted therapies and immunotherapy for advanced thyroid cancers

GE Naoum, M Morkos, B Kim, W Arafat - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Thyroid cancer is a frequently encountered endocrine malignancy. Despite the favorable
prognosis of this disease, 15–20% of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) cases and most …

Histone deacetylase inhibitors: an attractive therapeutic strategy against breast cancer

C Damaskos, S Valsami, M Kontos… - Anticancer …, 2017 - ar.iiarjournals.org
With a lifetime risk estimated to be one in eight in industrialized countries, breast cancer is
the most frequent type of cancer among women worldwide. Patients are often treated with …

Histone deacetylases as new therapeutic targets in triple-negative breast cancer: Progress and promises

N Garmpis, C Damaskos, A Garmpi… - Cancer Genomics & …, 2017 - cgp.iiarjournals.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) lacks expression of estrogen receptor (ER),
progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2 gene. It comprises approximately 15-20% of breast …

Epigenetic inactivation of tumour suppressor coding and non-coding genes in human cancer: an update

P Llinas-Arias, M Esteller - Open biology, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cancer cells undergo many different alterations during their transformation, including
genetic and epigenetic events. The controlled division of healthy cells can be impaired …

Immune checkpoint inhibitors for metastatic bladder cancer

F Massari, V Di Nunno, M Cubelli, M Santoni… - Cancer treatment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chemotherapy has represented the standard therapy for unresectable or metastatic
urothelial carcinoma for more than 20 years. The growing knowledge of the interaction …

Recent advancement of HDAC inhibitors against breast cancer

SA Mehmood, KK Sahu, S Sengupta, S Partap… - Medical Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Recent studies highlight the great potential impact of HDAC inhibitors (HDACis) in
suppressing TNBC, even though clinical trials including a single HDACis demonstrated …

Unresolved complexity in the gene regulatory network underlying EMT

DP Lavin, VK Tiwari - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is the process whereby a polarized epithelial cell
ceases to maintain cell-cell contacts, loses expression of characteristic epithelial cell …

Clinical Significance of the Histone Deacetylase 2 (HDAC-2) Expression in Human Breast Cancer

N Garmpis, C Damaskos, D Dimitroulis… - Journal of Personalized …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background/Aim: There is a strong association between malignancy and histone
deacetylases (HDACs). Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) are now being tested as …

Notch signaling in thyroid cancer

R Guenter, Z Patel, H Chen - Notch Signaling in Embryology and Cancer …, 2021 - Springer
Thyroid cancer is the most common malignancy of the endocrine system with a steadily
rising incidence. The term “thyroid cancer” encompasses a spectrum of subtypes, namely …