Statins as anticancer agents in the era of precision medicine

J Longo, JE van Leeuwen, M Elbaz, E Branchard… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Statins are widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that inhibit HMG-CoA reductase
(HMGCR), the rate-limiting enzyme of the mevalonate metabolic pathway. Multiple lines of …

Cholesterol and beyond-The role of the mevalonate pathway in cancer biology

A Göbel, M Rauner, LC Hofbauer… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer is a multifaceted global disease. Transformation of a normal to a malignant cell takes
several steps, including somatic mutations, epigenetic alterations, metabolic reprogramming …

Association between bisphosphonate use and COVID-19 related outcomes

J Thompson, Y Wang, T Dreischulte, O Barreiro… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Background: Although there are several efficacious vaccines against COVID-19, vaccination
rates in many regions around the world remain insufficient to prevent continued high …

Current treatments and new possible complementary therapies for epithelial ovarian cancer

MP Garrido, AN Fredes, L Lobos-González… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is one of the deadliest gynaecological malignancies. The
late diagnosis is frequent due to the absence of specific symptomatology and the molecular …

Anti-tumor effects of mevalonate pathway inhibition in ovarian cancer

A Göbel, VM Zinna, S Dell'Endice, N Jaschke… - BMC cancer, 2020 - Springer
Background Ovarian cancer remains the most fatal gynecological malignancy. Current
therapeutic options are limited due to late diagnosis in the majority of the cases, metastatic …

The potential of isoprenoids in adjuvant cancer therapy to reduce adverse effects of statins

H Mo, R Jeter, A Bachmann, ST Yount… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The mevalonate pathway provides sterols for membrane structure and nonsterol
intermediates for the post-translational modification and membrane anchorage of growth …

The poor design of clinical trials of statins in oncology may explain their failure–lessons for drug repurposing

MI Abdullah, E de Wolf, MJ Jawad… - Cancer treatment reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Statins are widely used to treat hypercholesterolaemia. However, by inhibiting the
production of mevalonate, they also reduce the production of several isoprenoids that are …

[PDF][PDF] The diabetic-anemia nexus: implications for clinical practice

GM Ahmed, MN Abed, FA Alassaf - Mil Med Sci Lett, 2023 - mmsl.cz
Objectives: Due to a variety of factors, individuals with diabetes are more likely to develop
anemia. Chronic kidney disease, a frequent consequence of diabetes, is one of the key …

Pitavastatin and metformin synergistically activate apoptosis and autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells

YH Chen, YC Huang, SF Yang, HH Yen… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer‐related deaths globally. Metformin
is the standard first‐line of treatment for hyperglycemia in Type 2 diabetes, whereas …

Identification of foods that affect the anti‑cancer activity of pitavastatin in cells

MJ Jawad, S Ibrahim, M Kumar… - Oncology …, 2022 - spandidos-publications.com
Statins inhibit the synthesis of mevalonate, a precursor isoprenoid molecule to
geranylgeraniol that is necessary for the post‑translational modification of several small …