Prostate cancer progression after androgen deprivation therapy: mechanisms of castrate resistance and novel therapeutic approaches

T Karantanos, PG Corn, TC Thompson - Oncogene, 2013 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related mortality in men in Western
societies. Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is a critical survival pathway for prostate cancer …

Androgen receptor signaling in the development of castration-resistant prostate cancer

Q Feng, B He - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Most prostate cancers are androgen-sensitive malignancies whose growths depend on the
transcriptional activity of the androgen receptor (AR). In the 1940s, Charles Huggins …

Discovery of ODM-201, a new-generation androgen receptor inhibitor targeting resistance mechanisms to androgen signaling-directed prostate cancer therapies

AM Moilanen, R Riikonen, R Oksala, L Ravanti… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Activation of androgen receptor (AR) is crucial for prostate cancer growth. Remarkably, also
castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is dependent on functional AR and several …

The development of androgen-independent prostate cancer

BJ Feldman, D Feldman - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2001 - nature.com
The normal prostate and early-stage prostate cancers depend on androgens for growth and
survival, and androgen ablation therapy causes them to regress. Cancers that are not cured …

Androgen receptor in prostate cancer

CA Heinlein, C Chang - Endocrine reviews, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The normal development and maintenance of the prostate is dependent on androgen acting
through the androgen receptor (AR). AR remains important in the development and …

Molecular determinants of resistance to antiandrogen therapy

CD Chen, DS Welsbie, C Tran, SH Baek, R Chen… - Nature medicine, 2004 - nature.com
Using microarray-based profiling of isogenic prostate cancer xenograft models, we found
that a modest increase in androgen receptor mRNA was the only change consistently …

TRIM24 is an oncogenic transcriptional activator in prostate cancer

AC Groner, L Cato, J de Tribolet-Hardy, T Bernasocchi… - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is a key driver of prostate cancer (PC). While androgen-
deprivation therapy is transiently effective in advanced disease, tumors often progress to a …

Biology of prostate-specific antigen

SP Balk, YJ Ko, GJ Bubley - Journal of clinical oncology, 2003 - ascopubs.org
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is an androgen-regulated serine protease produced by both
prostate epithelial cells and prostate cancer (PCa) and is the most commonly used serum …

Increased expression of genes converting adrenal androgens to testosterone in androgen-independent prostate cancer

M Stanbrough, GJ Bubley, K Ross, TR Golub… - Cancer research, 2006 - AACR
Androgen receptor (AR) plays a central role in prostate cancer, and most patients respond to
androgen deprivation therapies, but they invariably relapse with a more aggressive prostate …

Androgen receptor functions in castration-resistant prostate cancer and mechanisms of resistance to new agents targeting the androgen axis

X Yuan, C Cai, S Chen, Z Yu, SP Balk - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
The metabolic functions of androgen receptor (AR) in normal prostate are circumvented in
prostate cancer (PCa) to drive tumor growth, and the AR also can acquire new growth …