Abstract
Survival rates of patients with metastatic or recurrent cancers have remained virtually unchanged during the past 30 years. This fact makes the need for new therapeutic options even more urgent. An attractive option would be to target autophagy, an essential quality control process that degrades toxic aggregates, damaged organelles, and signaling proteins, and acts as a tumor suppressor pathway of tumor initiation. Conversely, other fascinating observations suggest that autophagy supports cancer progression, relapse, metastasis, dormancy and resistance to therapy. This review provides an overview of the contradictory roles that autophagy plays in cancer initiation and progression and discusses the promises and challenges of current strategies that target autophagy for cancer therapy.
Keywords: Antineoplastic agents/drug effects/autophagy targeted therapy, autophagy addiction/KRAS/BRAF-driven cancers, tumor metabolism, tumor resistance, tumor relapse, tumor metastasis, tumor dormancy, translational medicine.
Current Cancer Drug Targets
Title:Autophagy : Moving Benchside Promises to Patient Bedsides
Volume: 15 Issue: 8
Author(s): Amine Belaid, Papa Diogop Ndiaye, Harilaos Filippakis, Jeremie Roux, Eric Rottinger, Yacine Graba, Patrick Brest, Paul Hofman and Baharia Mograbi
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Keywords: Antineoplastic agents/drug effects/autophagy targeted therapy, autophagy addiction/KRAS/BRAF-driven cancers, tumor metabolism, tumor resistance, tumor relapse, tumor metastasis, tumor dormancy, translational medicine.
Abstract: Survival rates of patients with metastatic or recurrent cancers have remained virtually unchanged during the past 30 years. This fact makes the need for new therapeutic options even more urgent. An attractive option would be to target autophagy, an essential quality control process that degrades toxic aggregates, damaged organelles, and signaling proteins, and acts as a tumor suppressor pathway of tumor initiation. Conversely, other fascinating observations suggest that autophagy supports cancer progression, relapse, metastasis, dormancy and resistance to therapy. This review provides an overview of the contradictory roles that autophagy plays in cancer initiation and progression and discusses the promises and challenges of current strategies that target autophagy for cancer therapy.
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Belaid Amine, Ndiaye Diogop Papa, Filippakis Harilaos, Roux Jeremie, Rottinger Eric, Graba Yacine, Brest Patrick, Hofman Paul and Mograbi Baharia, Autophagy : Moving Benchside Promises to Patient Bedsides, Current Cancer Drug Targets 2015; 15 (8) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/156800961508151001102452
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/156800961508151001102452 |
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Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
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