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ReviewCurrent cancer drug targets2025

Ergodic Manipulation of Genome Chaos: Innovative Strategies against Malignant Progression.

Sergey Shityakov, Viacheslav Kravtsov

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Review in Current cancer drug targets, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sergey ShityakovLaboratory of Chemoinformatics, Infochemistry Scientific Center, ITMO University, Lomonosova str. 9, 191002, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Viacheslav KravtsovLaboratory of Chemoinformatics, Infochemistry Scientific Center, ITMO University, Lomonosova str. 9, 191002, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Funding

Russian Science Foundation (RSF), Russia 22-65-00022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genome instability is a key driver of malignant progression in cancer and is characterized by chromoanagenesis, including spontaneous events, such as chromothripsis, chromoanasynthesis, and chromoplexy. These genome catastrophes create the heterogeneity necessary for tumor cells to adapt, evolve, and resist therapy. Ergodic anticancer therapy represents a novel strategy for targeting cancer stem cells by manipulating their genome chaos. Two approaches have been proposed: ergodynamic anticancer therapy (EDAT), which enhances genome chaos beyond a critical threshold and leads to self-destruction, and ergostatic anticancer therapy (ESAT), which suppresses chaos and limits malignant progression. This short communication explores the conceptual foundations, molecular mechanisms, and therapeutic potential of ergostatic and ergodynamic therapies in treating cancer, highlighting their role in personalized medicine.

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Antineoplastic AgentsGenomic InstabilityNeoplasmsAnimalsDisease ProgressionHumansNeoplastic Stem CellsPrecision MedicineAntineoplastic Agentsapoptosiscancer stem cellscancer therapeuticscell differentiation therapychromosomal instabilityepigenetic regulation in cancerergodicitygenome catastrophesGenomic instabilitymolecular targeted therapy.mutationtargeted therapy

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