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Telomere and Telomerase Therapeutics in Cancer.
Review in Genes, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.
- Short telomeres are associated with inferior outcome, genomic complexity, and clonal evolution in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.Leukemia · 2019Trial
- Advances in Brain Tumor Biomarkers: From Molecular Profiling to Liquid Biopsy and AI-Driven Detection.Cancers · 2026Review
- Targeting Telomerase in Cancer: Vaccine-Based Strategies, Clinical Evidence, and Synergy with Immunotherapy.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Correlations between Aging, Telomeres, and Natural Compounds.Aging and disease · 2025Review
- Telomere length and skin cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis of melanoma, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.Oncology letters · 2025Article
- Canonical and non-canonical functions of the non-coding RNA component (TERC) of telomerase complex.Cell & bioscience · 2025Review
- Telomeres and telomerase in mesothelioma: Pathophysiology, biomarkers and emerging therapeutic strategies (Review).International journal of oncology · 2025Review
- Telomerase in cancer- ongoing quest and future discoveries.Molecular biology reports · 2025Review
- The role of telomere and telomerase in cancer and novel therapeutic target: narrative review.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- Is Silver a Precious Metal for G-Quadruplex Stabilization Mediated by Porphyrins?International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Beginning at the ends: telomere and telomere-based cancer therapeutics.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2024Review
- Natural Compounds and Breast Cancer: Chemo-Preventive and Therapeutic Capabilities of Chlorogenic Acid and Cinnamaldehyde.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- 2.7 Å cryo-EM structure of human telomerase H/ACA ribonucleoprotein.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Obesity-Senescence-Breast Cancer: Clinical Presentation of a Common Unfortunate Cycle.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- Two co-inherited SNPs of the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene are associated with Iraqi patients with lung cancer.Journal of medical biochemistry · 2023Article
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- Deciphering the Functions of Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase in Head and Neck Cancer.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Retrospective Analysis of the Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Breast Cancer Treated with Telomerase Peptide Immunotherapy Combined with Cytotoxic Chemotherapy.Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2023Article
- The Role of Telomerase in Breast Cancer's Response to Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Hormonal regulation of telomerase activity and hTERT expression in steroid-regulated tissues and cancer.Cancer cell international · 2022Review
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Abstract
Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase capable of utilizing an integrated RNA component as a template to add protective tandem telomeric single strand DNA repeats, TTAGGG, to the ends of chromosomes. Telomere dysfunction and telomerase reactivation are observed in approximately 90% of human cancers; hence, telomerase activation plays a unique role as a nearly universal step on the path to malignancy. In the past two decades, multiple telomerase targeting therapeutic strategies have been pursued, including direct telomerase inhibition, telomerase interference, hTERT or hTERC promoter driven therapy, telomere-based approaches, and telomerase vaccines. Many of these strategies have entered clinical development, and some have now advanced to phase III clinical trials. In the coming years, one or more of these new telomerase-targeting drugs may be expected to enter the pharmacopeia of standard care. Here, we briefly review the molecular functions of telomerase in cancer and provide an update about the preclinical and clinical development of telomerase targeting therapeutics.
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