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Current Status of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors Targeted Therapies in Breast Cancer

Navid Sobhani
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Anna Ianza
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Alberto D'Angelo
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Giandomenico Roviello
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Fabiola Giudici
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Marina Bortul
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Fabrizio Zanconati
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Cristina Bottin
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Daniele Generali
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Version 1 : Received: 5 June 2018 / Approved: 7 June 2018 / Online: 7 June 2018 (07:50:30 CEST)

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Sobhani, N.; Ianza, A.; D’Angelo, A.; Roviello, G.; Giudici, F.; Bortul, M.; Zanconati, F.; Bottin, C.; Generali, D. Current Status of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor-Targeted Therapies in Breast Cancer. Cells 2018, 7, 76. Sobhani, N.; Ianza, A.; D’Angelo, A.; Roviello, G.; Giudici, F.; Bortul, M.; Zanconati, F.; Bottin, C.; Generali, D. Current Status of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor-Targeted Therapies in Breast Cancer. Cells 2018, 7, 76.

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy and second only to lung cancer in terms of mortality in women. Despite the incredible progress made in this field, the metastatic breast cancer leaves a poor prognosis. In an era of personalized medicine, there is an urgent need for a better knowledge of the biology leading to the disease, which can lead to the design of always more accurate drugs against patients’ specific molecular aberrations. Among one of the actionable targets is the Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor (FGFR) pathway, triggered by specific ligands. The FGFRs/FGFs axis offers interesting molecular targets to be pursued in clinical development. This mini-review will focus on the current knowledge of the FGFRs mutations leading to tumour formation and summarizes the state-of-the-art of therapeutic strategies for targeted treatments against the FGFRs/FGFs axis in the context of BC.

Keywords

fibroblast growth factor; fibroblast growth factor receptor; targeted treatments; breast cancer

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Oncology and Oncogenics

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