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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2020

Drug Repurposing for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

Marta Ávalos-Moreno, Araceli López-Tejada, Jose L Blaya-Cánovas, Francisca E Cara-Lupiañez, Adrián González-González, Jose A Lorente, Pedro Sánchez-Rovira, Sergio Granados-Principal

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Marta Ávalos-MorenoGENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 18016 Granada, Spain.
Araceli López-TejadaGENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 18016 Granada, Spain.
Jose L Blaya-CánovasGENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 18016 Granada, Spain.
Francisca E Cara-LupiañezGENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5488-4994
Adrián González-GonzálezGENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4283-6108
Jose A LorenteGENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9892-7386
Pedro Sánchez-RoviraUGC de Oncología Médica, Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén, 23007 Jaén, Spain.
Sergio Granados-PrincipalGENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8773-9489
Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén · ESPfizer-University of Granada-Junta de Andalucía Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research · ESUniversidad de Granada · ES

Funding

Fundación Científica Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer PRDJA19001BLAYInstituto de Salud Carlos III CP14/00197Instituto de Salud Carlos III CP19/00029Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI15/00336Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI19/01533Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades FPU19/04450Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad RTC-2016-5674-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive type of breast cancer which presents a high rate of relapse, metastasis, and mortality. Nowadays, the absence of approved specific targeted therapies to eradicate TNBC remains one of the main challenges in clinical practice. Drug discovery is a long and costly process that can be dramatically improved by drug repurposing, which identifies new uses for existing drugs, both approved and investigational. Drug repositioning benefits from improvements in computational methods related to chemoinformatics, genomics, and systems biology. To the best of our knowledge, we propose a novel and inclusive classification of those approaches whereby drug repurposing can be achieved in silico: structure-based, transcriptional signatures-based, biological networks-based, and data-mining-based drug repositioning. This review specially emphasizes the most relevant research, both at preclinical and clinical settings, aimed at repurposing pre-existing drugs to treat TNBC on the basis of molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways such as androgen receptor, adrenergic receptor, STAT3, nitric oxide synthase, or AXL. Finally, because of the ability and relevance of cancer stem cells (CSCs) to drive tumor aggressiveness and poor clinical outcome, we also focus on those molecules repurposed to specifically target this cell population to tackle recurrence and metastases associated with the progression of TNBC.

Indexed as

cancer stem cellsclinical trialscomputational methodsdrug repurposingpersonalized medicinetriple-negative breast cancer

Identifiers

PMID33138097
PMCPMC7711505
OpenAlexW3097546489

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