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ReviewJournal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia2003

Novel agents for the prevention of breast cancer: targeting transcription factors and signal transduction pathways.

Qiang Shen, Powel H Brown

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Review in Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Association of ApaI and TaqI polymorphisms in VDR Gene with Breast Cancer.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2020
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  6. Association between vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and breast cancer in a Chinese population.International journal of clinical and experimental medicine · 2015
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  11. Chemopreventive efficacies of rosiglitazone, fenretinide and their combination against rat mammary carcinogenesis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2009
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  18. Is iodine a gatekeeper of the integrity of the mammary gland?Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia · 2005
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qiang ShenBreast Center, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Powel H Brown
Baylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transformation of breast cells occurs through loss or mutation of tumor suppressor genes, or activation or amplification of oncogenes, leading to deregulation of signal transduction pathways, abnormal amplification of growth signals, and aberrant expression of genes that ultimately transform the cells into invasive cancer. The goal of cancer preventive therapy, or "chemoprevention," is to eliminate premalignant cells or to block the progression of normal cells into cancer. Multiple alterations in signal pathways and transcription factors are observed in mammary gland tumorigenesis. In particular, estrogen receptor (ER) deregulation plays a critical role in breast cancer development and progress, and targeting ER with selective ER modulators (SERMs) has achieved significant reduction of breast cancer incidence in women at high risk for breast cancer. However, not all breast cancer is prevented by SERMs, because 30-40% of the tumors are ER-negative. Other receptors for retinoids, vitamin D analogs and peroxisome proliferator-activiator, along with transcription factors such as AP-1, NF-kappaB, and STATs (signal transducers and activators of transcription) affect breast tumorigenesis. This is also true for the signal transduction pathways, for example cyclooxygenase 2 (Cox-2), HER2/neu, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and PI3K/Akt. Therefore, proteins in pathways that are altered during the process of mammary tumorigenesis may be promising targets of future chemopreventive drugs. Many newly-developed synthetic or natural compounds/agents are now under testing in preclinical studies and clinical trials. Receptor selective retinoids, receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), SERMs, Cox-2 inhibitors, and others are some of the promising novel agents for the prevention of breast cancer. The chemopreventive activity of these agents and other novel signal transduction inhibitors are discussed in this chapter.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnticarcinogenic AgentsBreast NeoplasmsEnzyme InhibitorsHumansModels, BiologicalProtein-Tyrosine KinasesReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearReceptors, EstrogenReceptors, Retinoic AcidTranscription FactorsAnticarcinogenic AgentsEnzyme InhibitorsProtein-Tyrosine KinasesReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearReceptors, EstrogenReceptors, Retinoic AcidTranscription Factors

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PMID14587863
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