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Cancers, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2017 - 25 articles

Cover Story: Metastasis represents a critical step in tumor progression that is responsible for more than 90% of cancer-induced mortality. During cancer progression of epithelial tumors, cells become significantly more invasive after completing EMT as they display newly-acquired mesenchymal features. TGF-β is a powerful regulator of EMT through both transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms, and recent advances underline the critical roles of non-coding RNAs in these processes. Our review discusses the current literature including the most recent reports emphasizing the regulatory functions of non-coding RNA in TGF-β-mediated EMT, provides original experimental evidence, and advocates in general for a broader approach in the quest of new regulatory RNAs. View this paper
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Articles (25)

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
11,314 Views
23 Pages

Targeting Platelets for the Treatment of Cancer

  • Omar Elaskalani,
  • Michael C. Berndt,
  • Marco Falasca and
  • Pat Metharom

22 July 2017

The majority of cancer-associated mortality results from the ability of tumour cells to metastasise leading to multifunctional organ failure and death. Disseminated tumour cells in the blood circulation are faced with major challenges such as rheolog...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,024 Views
13 Pages

21 July 2017

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a fatal malignancy with a five-year survival rate lower than 7%, and most patients dying within six months of diagnosis. The factors that contribute to the aggressiveness of the disease include, but are not limited...

  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
11,215 Views
10 Pages

18 July 2017

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells are T-cells with recombinant receptors targeted to tumor antigens. CAR-T cell therapy has emerged as a mode of immunotherapy and is now being extensively explored in hematologic cancer. In contrast, CAR-T cell...

  • Review
  • Open Access
136 Citations
13,288 Views
21 Pages

Complex DNA Damage: A Route to Radiation-Induced Genomic Instability and Carcinogenesis

  • Ifigeneia V. Mavragani,
  • Zacharenia Nikitaki,
  • Maria P. Souli,
  • Asef Aziz,
  • Somaira Nowsheen,
  • Khaled Aziz,
  • Emmy Rogakou and
  • Alexandros G. Georgakilas

18 July 2017

Cellular effects of ionizing radiation (IR) are of great variety and level, but they are mainly damaging since radiation can perturb all important components of the cell, from the membrane to the nucleus, due to alteration of different biological mol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,311 Views
12 Pages

The Role of Radiation Induced Injury on Lung Cancer

  • Stephanie Puukila,
  • Christopher Thome,
  • Antone L. Brooks,
  • Gayle Woloschak and
  • Douglas R. Boreham

12 July 2017

This manuscript evaluates the role of cell killing, tissue disorganization, and tissue damage on the induction of lung cancer following low dose rate radiation exposures from internally deposited radioactive materials. Beagle dogs were exposed by inh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
115 Citations
10,156 Views
10 Pages

SIRT3: Oncogene and Tumor Suppressor in Cancer

  • Margalida Torrens-Mas,
  • Jordi Oliver,
  • Pilar Roca and
  • Jorge Sastre-Serra

12 July 2017

Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3), the major deacetylase in mitochondria, plays a crucial role in modulating oxygen reactive species (ROS) and limiting the oxidative damage in cellular components. SIRT3 targets different enzymes which regulate mitochondrial metaboli...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,717 Views
16 Pages

Role and Therapeutic Targeting of the HGF/MET Pathway in Glioblastoma

  • Nichola Cruickshanks,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Fang Yuan,
  • Mary Pahuski,
  • Myron Gibert and
  • Roger Abounader

11 July 2017

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a lethal brain tumor with dismal prognosis. Current therapeutic options, consisting of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, have only served to marginally increase patient survival. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are dysregula...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,606 Views
9 Pages

Cost Saving Opportunities in NSCLC Therapy by Optimized Diagnostics

  • Ilija Nenadić,
  • Janine Staber,
  • Susanne Dreier,
  • Guus Simons,
  • Verena Schildgen,
  • Michael Brockmann and
  • Oliver Schildgen

11 July 2017

With an incidence of 68 new cases per 100,000 people per year, an estimated total number of up to 350,000 new non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases are diagnosed each year in the European Union. Up to 10% of NSCLC patients are eligible for therapy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,399 Views
18 Pages

Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase-Dependent Signalling Pathways in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinomas

  • Joanna M. Janus,
  • Ryan F. L. O’Shaughnessy,
  • Catherine A. Harwood and
  • Tania Maffucci

11 July 2017

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) derives from keratinocytes in the epidermis and accounts for 15–20% of all cutaneous malignancies. Although it is usually curable by surgery, 5% of these tumours metastasise leading to poor prognosis mostly be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,933 Views
21 Pages

The Role of miRNAs in Angiogenesis, Invasion and Metabolism and Their Therapeutic Implications in Gliomas

  • Sasha Beyer,
  • Jessica Fleming,
  • Wei Meng,
  • Rajbir Singh,
  • S. Jaharul Haque and
  • Arnab Chakravarti

10 July 2017

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding, endogenous RNA molecules that function in gene silencing by post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The dysregulation of miRNA plays a pivotal role in cancer tumorigenesis, including the developme...

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