Chemotherapy resistance in epithelial ovarian cancer: Mechanisms and emerging treatments

C Marchetti, F De Felice, A Romito, V Iacobelli… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ovarian cancer (OC) remains a fatal malignancy because most patients experience
recurrent disease, which is resistant to chemotherapy. The outcomes for patients with …

Targeted therapies in gynecological cancers: A comprehensive review of clinical evidence

Q Wang, H Peng, X Qi, M Wu, X Zhao - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Advanced and recurrent gynecological cancers are associated with poor prognosis and lack
of effective treatment. The developments of the molecular mechanisms on cancer …

DNA repair and therapeutic strategies in cancer stem cells

MS Gillespie, CM Ward, CC Davies - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A major theory of cancer development is that cancer originates from a
specialised type of tumour cell called the cancer stem cell (CSC). Although CSCs comprise …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting cancer stem cells to overcome therapy resistance in ovarian cancer

S Muñoz-Galván, A Carnero - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy due to its late detection and
high recurrence rate. Resistance to conventional platinum-based therapies and metastasis …

Cancer stemness: p53 at the wheel

D Ghatak, D Das Ghosh, S Roychoudhury - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The tumor suppressor p53 maintains an equilibrium between self-renewal and
differentiation to sustain a limited repertoire of stem cells for proper development and …

[HTML][HTML] Can CD133 be regarded as a prognostic biomarker in oncology: pros and cons

A Gisina, Y Kim, K Yarygin, A Lupatov - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The CD133 cell membrane glycoprotein, also termed prominin-1, is expressed on some of
the tumor cells of both solid and blood malignancies. The CD133-positive tumor cells were …

Meiotic protein SYCP2 confers resistance to DNA-damaging agents through R-loop-mediated DNA repair

Y Wang, B Gao, L Zhang, X Wang, X Zhu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Drugs targeting the DNA damage response (DDR) are widely used in cancer therapy, but
resistance to these drugs remains a major clinical challenge. Here, we show that SYCP2, a …

Targeting the tumour microenvironment in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer

M Cummings, C Freer, NM Orsi - Seminars in cancer biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Ovarian cancer typically presents at an advanced stage, and although the majority of cases
initially respond well to platinum-based therapies, chemoresistance almost always occurs …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical and molecular features of platinum resistance in ovarian cancer

I Miras, P Estévez-García, S Muñoz-Galván - Critical Reviews in Oncology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal of all the gynecological tumors despite remarkable
advances in our understanding of its molecular biology. The cornerstone treatment remains …

Novel therapeutic strategies for ovarian cancer stem cells

N Terraneo, F Jacob, A Dubrovska… - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ovarian cancer (OC) is one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies. Due to the lack of
specific symptoms and screening methods, this disease is usually diagnosed only at an …