Accurate prediction of response to endocrine therapy in breast cancer patients: Current and future biomarkers

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Selli, Cigdem ^a,c   Dixon, J Michael ^b   Sims, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Endocrine therapy; Liquid biopsy; Response prediction; Sequential sampling

Indexed keywords

ABEMACICLIB; ANASTROZOLE; CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA; DNA; ENTINOSTAT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; EVEROLIMUS; EXEMESTANE; FULVESTRANT; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1; LAPATINIB; LETROZOLE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 4; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; PALBOCICLIB; PANOBINOSTAT; PERTUZUMAB; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; RAS ASSOCIATION DOMAIN FAMILY PROTEIN 1A; RIBOCICLIB; STRATIFIN; TAMOXIFEN; TRASTUZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VORINOSTAT; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS;

ASPM GENE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER RISK; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GSTP1 GENE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IL6ST GENE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MCM4 GENE; MDR1 GENE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METASTATIC BREAST CANCER; MGMT GENE; NGFRAP1 GENE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASSF1A GENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRATIFIN GENE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85000788601     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-016-0779-0     Document Type: Review

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