scholarly journals Pathogenesis and Potential Therapeutic Targets for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2978
Author(s):  
Chia-Jung Li ◽  
Yen-Dun Tony Tzeng ◽  
Yi-Han Chiu ◽  
Hung-Yu Lin ◽  
Ming-Feng Hou ◽  
...  

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous tumor characterized by early recurrence, high invasion, and poor prognosis. Currently, its treatment includes chemotherapy, which shows a suboptimal efficacy. However, with the increasing studies on TNBC subtypes and tumor molecular biology, great progress has been made in targeted therapy for TNBC. The new developments in the treatment of breast cancer include targeted therapy, which has the advantages of accurate positioning, high efficiency, and low toxicity, as compared to surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Given its importance as cancer treatment, we review the latest research on the subtypes of TNBC and relevant targeted therapies.

Author(s):  
Simona Camorani ◽  
Margherita Passariello ◽  
Lisa Agnello ◽  
Silvia Esposito ◽  
Francesca Collina ◽  
...  

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 929
Author(s):  
Dima Hattab ◽  
Athirah Bakhtiar

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive types of breast cancer. Owing to the absenteeism of hormonal receptors expressed at the cancerous breast cells, hormonal therapies and other medications targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) are ineffective in TNBC patients, making traditional chemotherapeutic agents the only current appropriate regimen. Patients’ predisposition to relapse and metastasis, chemotherapeutics’ cytotoxicity and resistance and poor prognosis of TNBC necessitates researchers to investigate different novel-targeted therapeutics. The role of small interfering RNA (siRNA) in silencing the genes/proteins that are aberrantly overexpressed in carcinoma cells showed great potential as part of TNBC therapeutic regimen. However, targeting specificity, siRNA stability, and delivery efficiency cause challenges in the progression of this application clinically. Nanotechnology was highlighted as a promising approach for encapsulating and transporting siRNA with high efficiency-low toxicity profile. Advances in preclinical and clinical studies utilizing engineered siRNA-loaded nanotherapeutics for treatment of TNBC were discussed. Specific and selective targeting of diverse signaling molecules/pathways at the level of tumor proliferation and cell cycle, tumor invasion and metastasis, angiogenesis and tumor microenvironment, and chemotherapeutics’ resistance demonstrated greater activity via integration of siRNA-complexed nanoparticles.


Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (25) ◽  
pp. 13567-13581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhui Sui ◽  
Mingda Zhao ◽  
Yuedi Yang ◽  
Zhihao Guo ◽  
Mengcheng Ma ◽  
...  

Co-delivery of lapatinib and Dox by polysaccharide prodrug prevented metastasis and recurrence of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) that is usually insensitive to endocrine and molecular targeted therapy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 673-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Weiss ◽  
Ashley Glode ◽  
Wells A. Messersmith ◽  
Jennifer Diamond

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 4702-4710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey K. Anders ◽  
Eric P. Winer ◽  
James M. Ford ◽  
Rebecca Dent ◽  
Daniel P. Silver ◽  
...  

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document