Mechanisms of endocrine resistance in breast cancer: An overview of the proposed roles of noncoding RNA

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hayes, Erin L ^a,b   Lewis Wambi, Joan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; EXEMESTANE; FULVESTRANT; LETROZOLE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 34; MRX 34; TAMOXIFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RESISTANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ANIMAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84928709884     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-015-0542-y     Document Type: Review

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