Molecular chess? Hallmarks of anti-cancer drug resistance

IA Cree, P Charlton - BMC cancer, 2017 - Springer
Background The development of resistance is a problem shared by both classical
chemotherapy and targeted therapy. Patients may respond well at first, but relapse is …

Mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy in gastric cancer

JJG Marin, R Al-Abdulla, E Lozano… - Anti-Cancer Agents …, 2016 - benthamdirect.com
Although surgical resection is the standard curative therapy for gastric cancer, these tumors
are often diagnosed at an advanced stage, when surgery is not recommended. Alternative …

Markers of circulating tumour cells in the peripheral blood of patients with melanoma correlate with disease recurrence and progression

AL Reid, M Millward, R Pearce, M Lee… - British Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background Multimarker quantitative real‐time polymerase chain reaction (qRT‐PCR)
represents an effective method for detecting circulating tumour cells in the peripheral blood …

Validation of an NGS mutation detection panel for melanoma

A Reiman, H Kikuchi, D Scocchia, P Smith, YW Tsang… - BMC cancer, 2017 - Springer
Background Knowledge of the genotype of melanoma is important to guide patient
management. Identification of mutations in BRAF and c-KIT lead directly to targeted …

Prognostic and predictive values of oncogenic BRAF, NRAS, c‐KIT and MITF in cutaneous and mucous melanoma

M Pracht, A Mogha, A Lespagnol… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background Mutations of BRAF, NRAS and c‐KIT oncogenes are preferentially
described in certain histological subtypes of melanoma and linked to specific …

Endogenously produced nitric oxide mitigates sensitivity of melanoma cells to cisplatin

LC Godoy, CTM Anderson, R Chowdhury… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
Melanoma patients experience inferior survival after biochemotherapy when their tumors
contain numerous cells expressing the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) and …

HSP70 inhibition limits FAK-dependent invasion and enhances the response to melanoma treatment with BRAF inhibitors

A Budina-Kolomets, MR Webster, JIJ Leu… - Cancer …, 2016 - aacrjournals.org
The stress-inducible chaperone protein HSP70 (HSPA1) is implicated in melanoma
development, and HSP70 inhibitors exert tumor-specific cytotoxic activity in cancer. In this …

Antigrowth activity and induction of apoptosis in human melanoma cells by Drymis winteri forst extract and its active components

A Russo, V Cardile, ACE Graziano, R Avola… - Chemico-biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Melanoma is a highly invasive cancer that resists most conventional treatments. Therefore,
there is an urgent need to identify alternative anticancer agents able to affect new molecular …

Salinomycin induces autophagic cell death in salinomycin-sensitive melanoma cells through inhibition of autophagic flux

Y Liu, Y Hao, Y Li, Y Zheng, J Dai, F Zhong, W Wei… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Several literature has shown that salinomycin (Sal) is able to kill various types of cancer
cells through different signaling pathways. However, its effect on melanoma has seldom …

[PDF][PDF] Cancer research and therapy: Where are we today

S Sawant, R Shegokar - Int J Cancer Ther Oncol, 2014 - Citeseer
Till date scientists are struggling to understand the complete mechanism of carcinogenesis.
In future, the real time detection of cancer may help scientists to identify some of the …