Cancer drug resistance: an evolving paradigm

C Holohan, S Van Schaeybroeck, DB Longley… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Resistance to chemotherapy and molecularly targeted therapies is a major problem facing
current cancer research. The mechanisms of resistance to'classical'cytotoxic …

[HTML][HTML] Deconstructing the molecular portraits of breast cancer

A Prat, CM Perou - Molecular oncology, 2011 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease in terms of histology, therapeutic response,
dissemination patterns to distant sites, and patient outcomes. Global gene expression …

Targeting tumor-infiltrating macrophages decreases tumor-initiating cells, relieves immunosuppression, and improves chemotherapeutic responses

JB Mitchem, DJ Brennan, BL Knolhoff, BA Belt, Y Zhu… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
Tumor-infiltrating immune cells can promote chemoresistance and metastatic spread in
aggressive tumors. Consequently, the type and quality of immune responses present in the …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic heterogeneity, tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer

E Kudelova, M Smolar, V Holubekova… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heterogeneity of triple-negative breast cancer is well known at clinical, histopathological,
and molecular levels. Genomic instability and greater mutation rates, which may result in the …

Histological, molecular and functional subtypes of breast cancers

GK Malhotra, X Zhao, H Band, V Band - Cancer biology & therapy, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Increased understanding of the molecular heterogeneity that is intrinsic to the various
subtypes of breast cancer will likely shape the future of breast cancer diagnosis, prognosis …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic and molecular characterization of the claudin-low intrinsic subtype of breast cancer

A Prat, JS Parker, O Karginova, C Fan, C Livasy… - Breast cancer …, 2010 - Springer
Introduction In breast cancer, gene expression analyses have defined five tumor subtypes
(luminal A, luminal B, HER2-enriched, basal-like and claudin-low), each of which has …

Cancer stem cells, cancer cell plasticity and radiation therapy

E Vlashi, F Pajonk - Seminars in cancer biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Since the first prospective identification of cancer stem cells in solid cancers the cancer stem
cell hypothesis has reemerged as a research topic of increasing interest. It postulates that …

Breast cancer stem cell markers CD44, CD24 and ALDH1: expression distribution within intrinsic molecular subtype

S Ricardo, AF Vieira, R Gerhard, D Leitão… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - jcp.bmj.com
Background and Aim The study of CD44/CD24 and ALDH1 expression is the most accurate
method to identify cancer stem cells (CSC) from breast cancer populations. However, the …

Aldehyde dehydrogenase activity of breast cancer stem cells is primarily due to isoform ALDH1A3 and its expression is predictive of metastasis

P Marcato, CA Dean, D Pan, R Araslanova, M Gillis… - Stem …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are proposed to initiate cancer and propagate metastasis. Breast
CSCs identified by aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity are highly tumorigenic in …

The developing cancer stem-cell model: clinical challenges and opportunities

L Vermeulen, FS e Melo, DJ Richel… - The lancet oncology, 2012 - thelancet.com
During the past decade, a stem-cell-like subset of cancer cells has been identified in many
malignancies. These cells, referred to as cancer stem cells (CSCs), are of particular interest …