Abstract:
PURPOSE:PTEN is an essential tumour suppressor gene which encodes a phosphatase protein that antagonises the PI3K/Akt/mTOR antiapoptotic pathway. Impairment of this tumour suppressor pathway potentially becomes a causal factor for development of malignancies. This review aims to assess current understanding of mechanisms of dysfunction involving the PI3K/PTEN/Akt/mTOR pathway linked to tumorigenesis and evaluate the evidence for targeted therapy directed at this signalling axis. METHODS:Relevant articles in scientific databases were identified using a combination of search terms, including "malignancies", "targeted therapy", "PTEN", and "combination therapy". These databases included Medline, Embase, Cochrane Review, Pubmed, and Scopus. RESULTS:PI3K/PTEN expression is frequently deregulated in a majority of malignancies through genetic, epigenetic, and post-transcriptional modifications. This contributes to the upregulation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway which has been the focus of intense clinical studies. Targeted agents aimed at this pathway offer a novel treatment approach in a variety of haematologic malignancies and solid tumours. Compared to single-agent use, greater response rates were obtained in combination regimens, supporting further investigation of suitable drug combinations in a broad spectrum of malignancies. CONCLUSION:Activation of the PI3K/PTEN/Akt/mTOR pathway is implicated both in the pathogenesis of malignancies and development of resistance to anticancer therapies. Therefore, PI3K/Akt/mTOR inhibitors are a promising therapeutic option, in association with systemic cytotoxic and biological therapies, to enable sustained clinical outcomes in cancer treatment. Therapeutic strategies could be tailored according to appropriate biomarkers and patient-specific mutation profiles to maximise benefit of combination therapies.
journal_name
J Cancer Res Clin Oncoljournal_title
Journal of cancer research and clinical oncologyauthors
Lim HJ,Crowe P,Yang JLdoi
10.1007/s00432-014-1803-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-04-01 00:00:00pages
671-89issue
4eissn
0171-5216issn
1432-1335journal_volume
141pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract:BACKGROUND:Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have long been considered a reflection of tumor aggressiveness. Hematogenous spreading of CTCs from a primary tumor is a crucial step in the metastasis cascade, which leads ultimately to the formation of overt metastases. However, owing to the rarity of CTCs in peripheral blood...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00432-011-0988-y
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:beta-1,4-Galactosyltransferase (beta-1,4-GalT) I, II, and V are the enzymes responsible for the biosynthesis of N-acetyllactosamine on N-glycans by transferring UDP-galactose to the terminal N-acetylglucosamine (N-GlcNAc) residues with the formation of a beta-1,4-linkage. Neoplasms undergo various changes in th...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s004320100246
更新日期:2001-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The role of different cytogenetic changes has been extensively evaluated in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and cytogenetic analysis of AML blasts is essential to form prognostic subgroups in order to stratify for the extent of therapy. Nevertheless, 40-45% of AML patients lack such cytogenetic markers, i....
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00432-008-0524-x
更新日期:2009-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::After the gavage of 200 mg N-nitrosodiethylamine per kg body weight only kidney tumors developed while long-term administration of 10 ppm N-nitrosodiethylamine induced esophageal tumors and hepatocellular carcinomas in female rats (SIV 50). This change of the organ-specific carcinogenic effect is not observed in exper...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00401006
更新日期:1979-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::In addition to spontaneous uterine endometrial adenocarcinomas at a high incidence (35.1%), development of endometrial hyperplasia/adenoma was also frequently detected in rats of the Donryu strain. The total yield of all observed proliferative endometrial lesions was very high (60.6%). The tumors arose commonly in the...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01637084
更新日期:1990-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To determine the potential involvement of ANXA1 in oral squamous-cell carcinoma (OSCC), we evaluated the ANXA1 protein expression in oral premalignant lesions (OPLs) and OSCCs and correlated the results with clinicopathologic variables. METHODS:Matched normal and tumour specimens of 44 primary OSCCs and 28 OPL...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-008-0530-z
更新日期:2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) represent a population with tumour-initiating, self-renewal, and differentiation potential. This study aimed to evaluate the expression patterns and clinical significance of chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4) as a novel CSC marker in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). METHODS:The expression of...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-016-2239-8
更新日期:2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To determine the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis and to examine the influence of age and sex, and the contribution of etiological factors. METHODS:967 patients with liver cirrhosis and free of hepatocellular carcinoma were enrolled in this longitudinal, retrospective and observational study....
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s004320050215
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The carcinogenicity of long-term feeding of masheri extract to animals in a vitamin-A-sufficient (SLO+) and deficient (SLO-) state was studied in Sprague Dawley rats by feeding daily dose of 3 mg extract over a period of 21 months. The phase I activating enzymes, the glutathione (GSH)/glutathione S-transferase (GST) d...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01613196
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-008-0436-9
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Acute intestinal damage induced by chemotherapeutic agent is often a dose-limiting factor in clinical cancer therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of chemokine CXCL9 on the intestinal damage after chemotherapy and explore the therapeutic potential of anti-CXCL9 agents. METHODS:In vitro c...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-014-1869-y
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Nasal type extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL) can be associated with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (NK/T-LAHLH), which is a rare and fatal disease with no effective therapy. We evaluated whether etoposide + dexamethasone-based chemotherapy regimens might be useful for treating NK/T-LAHLH. M...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-020-03376-7
更新日期:2020-10-06 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Long noncoding RNAs (LncRNAs) have been demonstrated as playing important roles in diverse biological processes including tumorigenesis. However, the clinical significance and biological function of LncRNA nuclear-enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1) in gastric cancer are still unknown. The aim of this stu...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-016-2152-1
更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Death-associated protein kinase (DAPK) and adenomatous polyposis coli gene (APC) have been recently shown to be associated with outcome in patients with esophageal carcinoma, especially adenocarcinoma. We wanted to validate the correlation of these two markers with outcome by detecting methylated DNA sequenc...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-009-0564-x
更新日期:2009-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We performed intraoperative peritoneal cytology in 171 gastric cancer patients undergoing curative surgery. Intraperitoneal free cancer cells were demonstrated in almost all patients in whom the area of serosal cancer invasion exceeded 15-20 cm2. In patients with both serosal cancer invasion and free cancer cells the ...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00402474
更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A dose-response study was carried out in male F344 rats with a specific urinary bladder carcinogen, N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (BBN), which was administered as a solution in drinking water for up to 112 weeks. BBN was given in four different concentrations, 50, 10, 5, and 1 ppm, to groups of 30 rats. The hi...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00390992
更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Recent reports have shown an increase in frequency of intra-hepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHC) with a stable or decreased frequency of extra-hepatic cholangiocarcinoma (EHC). However, data on the demographic patterns associated with this change are limited. We analyzed cases of cholangiocarcinoma (CC) with aim to...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-010-0971-z
更新日期:2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::To examine the relationship between altered spontaneous mutation rates and malignant characteristics of cells, two hydroxyurea-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell lines, with alterations in ribonucleotide reductase, were examined for their rates of spontaneous mutation to 6-thioguanine and ouabain resistance, tumor g...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00393331
更新日期:1989-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:We compared laparoscopic approach with the conventional laparotomy approach for the treatment of patients with endometrial carcinoma in developing country. METHODS:Two hundred and seventy-two patients with endometrial carcinoma were enrolled in a prospective randomized trial and treated with laparoscopic or la...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1007/s00432-013-1504-3
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The antimalarial agent, artemisinin, also confers cancer-specific cytotoxic effects by reacting with ferrous iron atoms to form free radicals. Here, we investigated the radiosensitizing effects of dihydroartemisinin on glioma cells and assessed some possible mechanisms for these effects. MATERIALS AND METHODS:...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-005-0052-x
更新日期:2006-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The primary objective of this study was to determine the response rate of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer to combined therapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), leucovorin, and intravenous azidothymidine (AZT), a thymidine nucleoside analog. By itself, AZT has limited antineoplastic efficacy. However, experimental...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01213552
更新日期:1996-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The t(11;18)(q21;q21) chromosome translocation is frequent in gastric MALT lymphoma, but the t(11;18)(q21;q21) chromosome translocation is very rare in other sites of MALT lymphomas. We investigated the possibility that MALT lymphoma occurred in the right buccal mucosa of a 66-year-old Japanese woman who had th...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 信件
doi:10.1007/s00432-010-0939-z
更新日期:2010-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Trace metals are essential for the growth and several other properties of human lymphocytes. We studied the effects of media with variable concentrations of three metals (Fe2+, Cu2+, Zn2+), a metal chelator (deferoxamine, DFX) and a cell-growth inhibitor (hydroxyurea) on the growth, intracellular metal concentration a...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01612765
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To associate the global gene expression of B7/CD28 family transcripts with pathologic features of colon cancer, we determined the B7/CD28 family transcripts in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from normal subjects and patients with adenomatous polyps and colon cancer, and correlated the results with p...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-010-0800-4
更新日期:2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The human histiocytic cell line U 937, which expresses a number of monocyte markers and properties, was investigated with regard to its ability to be activated for NO and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) release after treatment with alkylphosphocholines (APC) and APC liposomes. Using APC multilamellar vesicles (MLV) a clea...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01225687
更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A previous cohort-study in a cardboard factory demonstrated that high and prolonged occupational exposure to trichloroethene (C2HCl3) is associated with an increased incidence of renal cell cancer. The present hospital-based case/control study investigates occupational exposure in 58 patients with renal cell cancer wi...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s004320050186
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Synergy of folinic acid and FU has been shown in several experimental systems. In the present study we examined the kinetics of concurrent administration of folinic acid on the kinetics of FU in an in vivo model. Folinic acid significantly increased the amount of FU bound to the TS complex. In the sequential combinati...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00390490
更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Cancer incidence in the elderly population has been continuously rising, and their treatment is an increasing concern among oncologists. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence and risk factors for morbidity and mortality after major oncological surgery in elderly patients with head and neck squamous cell ca...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00432-016-2141-4
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study was undertaken in order to compare the usefulness of three indices of tumour proliferation in detecting primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and in differentiating this neoplasm from liver cirrhosis. In 10 patients with HCC and in 63 with liver cirrhosis serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), tissue polypeptide a...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00391702
更新日期:1989-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This report describes two types of reticular epithelial cell in the thymic cortex of the BALB/c mouse, an immature and a mature form. During early stages of lymphoma development, i.e., 2-6 weeks postinfection (p.i.) with Moloney leukemia virus (M-MuLV), activation of the epithelial cells is observed. Although the perc...
journal_title:Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF00395387
更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00