ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2020
Lipids and cancer: Emerging roles in pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.
Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05587088 (Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Esperanza Extract), which is not on this map. Cited by 369 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Esperanza Extract (Petiveria Alliacea) in Patients With Metastatic Gastrointestinal Tumors and Acute Leukemia
Who cites it
369 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 620 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Genes and Pathways Involved in the Progression of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Expression Studies.Biochemical genetics · 2024Pooled it
- Non-small cell lung cancer and metabolism research from 2013 to 2023: a visual analysis and bibliometric study.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Lung lipids associated with smoking and ECIG use in a cross-sectional study and clinical trial.Respiratory research · 2025Trial
- STARD10 promotes progression of HER2+ breast cancer and intracellular lipid metabolism via the cAMP/PKA/CREB1 signaling axis.Cancer biology & therapy · 2026Article
- Proteomic Analysis of Sphingolipid Metabolic Enzymes with Risk of Bladder Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Lipid metabolism in moyamoya disease: Emerging evidence, vascular remodeling, and therapeutic implications.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Review
- Lipid-Soluble Signaling Molecular Model Predicts Prognosis and Immunotherapy Response in Gastric Cancer.Lipids · 2026Article
- Lipid droplet-associated gene signatures classify metabolic subtypes and identify PLIN3 as a key driver in hepatocellular carcinoma.Genes & diseases · 2026Article
- Aziridination-Enabled Structural and Quantitative Lipidomics.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2026Review
- Sterol regulatory element‑binding proteins: Master regulators of lipid metabolic reprogramming in cancer and emerging therapeutic targets (Review).Oncology reports · 2026Review
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- Intraprostatic steroid hormones and endocrine disruptors in prostate cancer.Endocrine-related cancer · 2026Article
- Identification of Circulating Lipidomic Biomarkers of Malnutrition Risk among Oncology Patients in the Total Cancer Care (TCC) Study: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Lipid Metabolism, Lipogenesis, and Resistance to Third Generation EGFR-TKIs.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2026Review
- The Many Layers of Membrane Biophysics: Environment-Sensitive Fluorophores Report on Structural Organization of Biological Membranes at Various Depths.Analytical chemistry · 2026Article
- A lipid-immune network signature defines susceptibility to asparaginase-associated pancreatitis.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Mapping prostate cancer pathobiology: A review of genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs).Gene · 2026Review
- The nutrigenomic-epigenetic axis in cancer: from dietary bioactives to precision oncology.Nutrition & metabolism · 2026Review
309 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
With the advent of effective tools to study lipids, including mass spectrometry-based lipidomics, lipids are emerging as central players in cancer biology. Lipids function as essential building blocks for membranes, serve as fuel to drive energy-demanding processes and play a key role as signaling molecules and as regulators of numerous cellular functions. Not unexpectedly, cancer cells, as well as other cell types in the tumor microenvironment, exploit various ways to acquire lipids and extensively rewire their metabolism as part of a plastic and context-dependent metabolic reprogramming that is driven by both oncogenic and environmental cues. The resulting changes in the fate and composition of lipids help cancer cells to thrive in a changing microenvironment by supporting key oncogenic functions and cancer hallmarks, including cellular energetics, promoting feedforward oncogenic signaling, resisting oxidative and other stresses, regulating intercellular communication and immune responses. Supported by the close connection between altered lipid metabolism and the pathogenic process, specific lipid profiles are emerging as unique disease biomarkers, with diagnostic, prognostic and predictive potential. Multiple preclinical studies illustrate the translational promise of exploiting lipid metabolism in cancer, and critically, have shown context dependent actionable vulnerabilities that can be rationally targeted, particularly in combinatorial approaches. Moreover, lipids themselves can be used as membrane disrupting agents or as key components of nanocarriers of various therapeutics. With a number of preclinical compounds and strategies that are approaching clinical trials, we are at the doorstep of exploiting a hitherto underappreciated hallmark of cancer and promising target in the oncologist's strategy to combat cancer.
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