Breast cancer: Biology, biomarkers, and treatments

K Barzaman, J Karami, Z Zarei, A Hosseinzadeh… - International …, 2020 - Elsevier
During the past recent years, various therapies emerged in the era of breast cancer. Breast
cancer is a heterogeneous disease in which genetic and environmental factors are involved …

Cross-talk between cancer stem cells and immune cells: potential therapeutic targets in the tumor immune microenvironment

B Wu, X Shi, M Jiang, H Liu - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Ongoing research has revealed that the existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) is one of the
biggest obstacles in the current cancer therapy. CSCs make an influential function in tumor …

An epigenetic role of mitochondria in cancer

Y Liu, C Chen, X Wang, Y Sun, J Zhang, J Chen, Y Shi - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are not only the main energy supplier but are also the cell metabolic center
regulating multiple key metaborates that play pivotal roles in epigenetics regulation. These …

Intra-tumor heterogeneity from a cancer stem cell perspective

PR Prasetyanti, JP Medema - Molecular cancer, 2017 - Springer
Tumor heterogeneity represents an ongoing challenge in the field of cancer therapy.
Heterogeneity is evident between cancers from different patients (inter-tumor heterogeneity) …

Drug resistance driven by cancer stem cells and their niche

M Prieto-Vila, R Takahashi, W Usuba… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Drug resistance represents one of the greatest challenges in cancer treatment. Cancer stem
cells (CSCs), a subset of cells within the tumor with the potential for self-renewal …

Tumor microenvironment targeted nanotherapeutics for cancer therapy and diagnosis: A review

S Thakkar, D Sharma, K Kalia, RK Tekade - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent findings suggest that the cellular and extracellular materials surrounding the
cancerous cells from an atypical tumor microenvironment (TM) play a pivotal role in the …

Induction of metastasis, cancer stem cell phenotype, and oncogenic metabolism in cancer cells by ionizing radiation

SY Lee, EK Jeong, MK Ju, HM Jeon, MY Kim, CH Kim… - Molecular cancer, 2017 - Springer
Radiation therapy is one of the major tools of cancer treatment, and is widely used for a
variety of malignant tumours. Radiotherapy causes DNA damage directly by ionization or …

Epigenetics in cancer stem cells

TB Toh, JJ Lim, EKH Chow - Molecular cancer, 2017 - Springer
Compelling evidence have demonstrated that bulk tumors can arise from a unique subset of
cells commonly termed “cancer stem cells” that has been proposed to be a strong driving …

Sox2 induces glioblastoma cell stemness and tumor propagation by repressing TET2 and deregulating 5hmC and 5mC DNA modifications

H Lopez-Bertoni, A Johnson, Y Rui, B Lal… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a reversible process catalyzed by the ten–eleven translocation (TET)
family of enzymes (TET1, TET2, TET3) that convert 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5 …

Glioblastoma: current status, emerging targets, and recent advances

A Thakur, C Faujdar, R Sharma, S Sharma… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly malignant brain tumor characterized by a heterogeneous
population of genetically unstable and highly infiltrative cells that are resistant to …