Rhabdomyosarcoma

SX Skapek, A Ferrari, AA Gupta, PJ Lupo… - Nature reviews disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children and
represents a high-grade neoplasm of skeletal myoblast-like cells. Decades of clinical and …

Current and future treatment strategies for rhabdomyosarcoma

C Chen, H Dorado Garcia, M Scheer… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children, and can be
subcategorized histologically and/or based on PAX-FOXO1 fusion gene status. Over the last …

Therapeutic approaches targeting PAX3-FOXO1 and its regulatory and transcriptional pathways in rhabdomyosarcoma

TH Nguyen, FG Barr - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a family of soft tissue cancers that are related to the skeletal
muscle lineage and predominantly occur in children and young adults. A specific …

Aurora A kinase inhibition destabilizes PAX3-FOXO1 and MYCN and synergizes with navitoclax to induce rhabdomyosarcoma cell death

J Ommer, JL Selfe, M Wachtel, EM O'Brien… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
The clinically aggressive alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) subtype is characterized by
expression of the oncogenic fusion protein PAX3-FOXO1, which is critical for tumorigenesis …

[HTML][HTML] PAX3-FOXO1: Zooming in on an “undruggable” target

M Wachtel, BW Schäfer - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Driver oncogenes are prime targets for therapy in tumors many of which, including
leukemias and sarcomas, express recurrent fusion transcription factors. One specific …

Combinatorial strategies to potentiate the efficacy of HDAC inhibitors in fusion-positive sarcomas

C Lanzi, G Cassinelli - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
Fusion positive (FP) sarcomas are characterized by chromosomal rearrangements
generating pathognomonic fusion transcripts and oncoproteins. In Ewing's sarcoma family of …

Epigenetic regulation of the PTEN–AKT–RAC1 axis by G9a is critical for tumor growth in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma

AV Bhat, M Palanichamy Kala, VK Rao, L Pignata… - Cancer Research, 2019 - AACR
Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS) is an aggressive pediatric cancer with poor prognosis.
As transient and stable modifications to chromatin have emerged as critical mechanisms in …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics, epigenetics and redox homeostasis in rhabdomyosarcoma: Emerging targets and therapeutics

A Pal, HY Chiu, R Taneja - Redox Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma accounting for 5–8% of
malignant tumours in children and adolescents. Children with high risk disease have poor …

Genomic and epigenetic changes drive aberrant skeletal muscle differentiation in rhabdomyosarcoma

S Pomella, SG Danielli, R Alaggio, WB Breunis… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue cancer in children
and adolescents. Its resemblance to skeletal muscle tissue distinguishes …

Molecular and cellular changes during cancer progression resulting from genetic and epigenetic alterations

K Pruitt - Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational …, 2016 - Elsevier
Tumorigenesis is a complex process that involves a persistent dismantling of cellular
safeguards and checkpoints. These molecular and cellular changes that accumulate over …