Autophagy as a Potential Therapeutic Target in Breast Cancer Treatment

Title:Autophagy as a Potential Therapeutic Target in Breast Cancer Treatment

Volume: 18 Issue: 7

Author(s): Natalia Lisiak*, Ewa Toton and Maria Rybczynska

Affiliation:

• Department of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Przybyszewskiego 49 St, 60-355 Poznan,Poland

Keywords: Autophagy, breast cancer, targeted therapy, receptors, HDAC, lysosomes, microtubules.

Abstract: One of the crucial reasons of breast cancer therapy failure is an impairment of mechanisms responsible for metabolism and cellular homeostasis, which makes it difficult to foresee the response to the treatment. Targeted therapy in breast cancer is dictated by the expression of specific molecules such as growth factor or hormone receptors. Many types of breast cancer exhibit different abnormalities in the apoptotic pathway, which confer the resistance to many forms of chemotherapy. Because of the fundamental importance of autophagy in the development and progression of cancer and its ability to affect treatment response, there has been an immense research on molecular regulation and signal transduction mechanisms that control this process. Here, we summarize the present knowledge concerning different breast cancer treatment strategies using drugs approved for the treatment of different breast cancer molecular subtypes with targeting pathways and factors associated with autophagy modulation/ regulation.

Cite this article as:

Lisiak Natalia *, Toton Ewa and Rybczynska Maria, Autophagy as a Potential Therapeutic Target in Breast Cancer Treatment, Current Cancer Drug Targets 2018; 18 (7) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1568009617666171114143330