Targeting Six Hallmarks of Cancer in Ovarian Cancer Therapy

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Normal cells must overcome multiple protective mechanisms to develop into cancer cells. Their new capabilities include self-sufficiency in growth signals and insensitivity to antigrowth signals, evasion of apoptosis, a limitless replicative potential, sustained angiogenesis, and tissue invasion and metastasis; these are also termed the six hallmarks of cancer. A deep understanding of the genetic and protein alterations involved in these processes has enabled the development of targeted therapeutic strategies and clinical trial design in the search for ovarian cancer treatments. Clinically, significantly longer progression-free survival has been observed in the single use of PARP, MEK, VEGF and Chk1/Chk2 inhibitors. However, the clinical efficacy of the targeted agents is still restricted to specific molecular subtypes and no trials illustrate a benefit in overall survival. Exploring novel drug targets or combining current feasible biological agents hold great promise to further improve outcomes in ovarian cancer. In this review, we intend to provide a comprehensive description of the molecular alterations involved in ovarian cancer carcinogenesis and of emerging biological agents and combined strategies that target aberrant pathways, which might shed light on future ovarian cancer treatment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Current cancer drug targets - 20(2020), 11 vom: 01., Seite 853-867

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gong, Han [VerfasserIn]
Nie, Dan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhengyu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antineoplastic Agents
Cancer hallmark
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Journal Article
MEK
Ovarian cancer
PARP
Review
Targeted therapy
VEGF

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Date Completed 18.11.2021

Date Revised 18.11.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2174/1568009620999200816130218

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313816190