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ReviewJournal of biosciences2016

Therapeutic resistance and cancer recurrence mechanisms: Unfolding the story of tumour coming back.

Mohammad Javad Dehghan Esmatabadi, Babak Bakhshinejad, Fatemeh Movahedi Motlagh, Sadegh Babashah, Majid Sadeghizadeh

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Review in Journal of biosciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Patient-reported emotional responses and coping mechanisms in cancer recurrence: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  11. Stem cells from a malignant rat prostate cell line generate prostate cancersAmerican journal of clinical and experimental urology · 2022
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  16. Non-coding RNAs underlying chemoresistance in gastric cancer.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2020
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  20. Necrosis in the Tumor Microenvironment and Its Role in Cancer Recurrence.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mohammad Javad Dehghan EsmatabadiDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Babak Bakhshinejad
Fatemeh Movahedi Motlagh
Sadegh Babashah
Majid Sadeghizadeh

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer recurrence is believed to be one of the major reasons for the failure of cancer treatment strategies. This biological phenomenon could arise from the incomplete eradication of tumour cells after chemo- and radiotherapy. Recent developments in the design of models reflecting cancer recurrence and in vivo imaging techniques have led researchers to gain a deeper and more detailed insight into the mechanisms underlying tumour relapse. Here, we provide an overview of three important drivers of recurrence including cancer stem cells (CSCs), neosis, and phoenix rising. The survival of cancer stem cells is well recognized as one of the primary causes of therapeutic resistance in malignant cells. CSCs have a relatively latent metabolism and show resistance to therapeutic agents through a variety of routes. Neosis has proven to be as an important mechanism behind tumour self-proliferation after treatment which gives rise to the expansion of tumour cells in the injured site via production of Raju cells. Phoenix rising is a prorecurrence pathway through which apoptotic cancer cells send strong signals to the neighbouring diseased cells leading to their multiplication. The mechanisms involved in therapeutic resistance and tumour recurrence have not yet been fully understood and mostly remain unexplained. Without doubt, an improved understanding of the cellular machinery contributing to recurrence will pave the way for the development of novel, sophisticated and effective antitumour therapeutic strategies which can eradicate tumour without the threat of relapse.

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Antineoplastic AgentsApoptosisCell ProliferationHumansNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasmsNeoplastic Stem CellsAntineoplastic Agents

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