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ArticleBreast cancer management

Chemotherapeutic Targeting of the Transforming Growth Factor-β Pathway in Breast Cancers.

Yong-Hun Lee, William P Schiemann

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Article in Breast cancer management. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yong-Hun LeeCase Comprehensive Cancer Center, Division of General Medical Sciences-Oncology, Case Western Reserve University, Wolstein Research Building, 2103 Cornell Road Cleveland, OH 44106.
William P SchiemannCase Comprehensive Cancer Center, Division of General Medical Sciences-Oncology, Case Western Reserve University, Wolstein Research Building, 2103 Cornell Road Cleveland, OH 44106.
Cornell University · US

Funding

Integrin-Mediated Regulation of TGF-Beta Signaling and TumorigenesisR01CA129359 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI SCHIEMANN, WILLIAM · 2007 to 2016
$2.9M
c-Abl-mediated Suppression of Breast Cancer Development and MetastasisR01CA177069 · NCI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI SCHIEMANN, WILLIAM · 2013 to 2018
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA129359NCI NIH HHS R01 CA177069
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transforming growth factor (TGF-β) is a multifunctional cytokine that plays essential roles in regulating mammary gland development, morphogenesis, differentiation, and involution. TGF-β also regulates mammary gland homeostasis and prevents its transformation by prohibiting dysregulated cell cycle progression, and by inducing apoptosis; it also creates cell microenvironments that readily inhibit cell migration, invasion, and metastasis. Interestingly, while early-stage mammary tumors remain sensitive to the tumor suppressing activities of TGF-β, late-stage breast cancers become insensitive to the anticancer functions of this cytokine and instead rely upon TGF-β to drive disease and metastatic progression. This switch in TGF-β function is known as the "TGF-β Paradox" and represents the rationale for developing chemotherapies to inactivate the TGF-β pathway and its oncogenic functions in late-stage breast cancers. Here we outline the molecular mechanisms that manifest the "TGF-β Paradox" and discuss the challenges associated with the development and use of anti-TGF-β agents to treat breast cancer patients.

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Breast CancerChemotherapyMetastasisSignaling TransductionTGF-β

Identifiers

PMID25904986
PMCPMC4403665
OpenAlexW2427040924

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