Prostate cancer review: genetics, diagnosis, treatment options, and alternative approaches

M Sekhoacha, K Riet, P Motloung, L Gumenku… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Prostate cancer affects men of all racial and ethnic groups and leads to
higher rates of mortality in those belonging to a lower socioeconomic status due to late …

PARP inhibitor resistance: the underlying mechanisms and clinical implications

H Li, ZY Liu, N Wu, YC Chen, Q Cheng, J Wang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Due to the DNA repair defect, BRCA1/2 deficient tumor cells are more sensitive to PARP
inhibitors (PARPi) through the mechanism of synthetic lethality. At present, several PAPRi …

Biomarkers for homologous recombination deficiency in cancer

MM Hoppe, R Sundar, DSP Tan… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Defective DNA repair is a common hallmark of cancer. Homologous recombination is a DNA
repair pathway of clinical interest due to the sensitivity of homologous recombination …

Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: new genes in confined pathways

FC Nielsen, T van Overeem Hansen… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic abnormalities in the DNA repair genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 predispose to hereditary
breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC). However, only approximately 25% of cases of HBOC …

Germline and somatic mutations in homologous recombination genes predict platinum response and survival in ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal carcinomas

KP Pennington, T Walsh, MI Harrell, MK Lee… - Clinical Cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: Hallmarks of germline BRCA1/2-associated ovarian carcinomas include
chemosensitivity and improved survival. The therapeutic impact of somatic BRCA1/2 …

[HTML][HTML] Properties and behavior of carbon nanomaterials when interfacing neuronal cells: How far have we come?

R Rauti, M Musto, S Bosi, M Prato, L Ballerini - Carbon, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, an increasing amount of studies have investigated the use of
components based on carbon-(nano) materials in the engineering of neural interfaces, to …

[HTML][HTML] Re-education of tumor-associated macrophages by CXCR2 blockade drives senescence and tumor inhibition in advanced prostate cancer

D Di Mitri, M Mirenda, J Vasilevska, A Calcinotto… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) represent a major component of the tumor
microenvironment supporting tumorigenesis. TAMs re-education has been proposed as a …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro and in vivo model systems used in prostate cancer research

D Cunningham, Z You - Journal of biological methods, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
New incidence of prostate cancer is a major public health issue in the Western world, and
has been rising in other areas of the globe in recent years. In an effort to understanding the …

Nuclear PTEN controls DNA repair and sensitivity to genotoxic stress

C Bassi, J Ho, T Srikumar, RJO Dowling, C Gorrini… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Loss of function of the phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN)
tumor suppressor gene is associated with many human cancers. In the cytoplasm, PTEN …

Therapeutic applications of PARP inhibitors: anticancer therapy and beyond

NJ Curtin, C Szabo - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
The aim of this article is to describe the current and potential clinical translation of
pharmacological inhibitors of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) for the therapy of …