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Erschienen in: Breast Cancer 4/2018

07.04.2017 | Special Feature

Overcoming aromatase inhibitor resistance in breast cancer: possible mechanisms and clinical applications

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Abstract

Estrogen plays crucial roles in the progression of hormone-dependent breast cancers through activation of nuclear estrogen receptor α (ER). Estrogen is produced locally from circulating inactive steroids and adrenal androgens in postmenopausal women. However, conversion by aromatase is a rate-limiting step in intratumoral estrogen production in breast cancer. Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) inhibit the growth of hormone-dependent breast cancers by blocking the conversion of adrenal androgens to estrogen and by unmasking the inhibitory effect of androgens, acting via the androgen receptor (AR). AIs are thus a standard treatment option for postmenopausal hormone-dependent breast cancer. However, although initial use of AIs provides substantial clinical benefit, some breast cancer patients relapse because of the acquisition of AI resistance. A better understanding of the mechanisms of AI resistance may contribute to the development of new therapeutic strategies and aid in the search for new therapeutic targets and agents. We have investigated AI-resistance mechanisms and established six AI-resistant cell lines. Some of them exhibit estrogen depletion-resistance properties via constitutive ER-activation or ER-independent growth signaling. We examined how breast cancer cells can adapt to estrogen depletion and androgen superabundance. Estrogen and estrogenic androgen produced independently from aromatase contributed to cell proliferation in some of these cell lines, while another showed AR-dependent cell proliferation. Based on these findings, currently proposed AI-resistance mechanisms include an aromatase-independent estrogen-producing pathway, estrogen-independent ER function, and ER-independent growth signaling. This review summarizes several hypotheses of AI-resistance mechanisms and discusses how existing or novel therapeutic agents may be applied to treat AI-resistant breast cancers.
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Metadaten
Titel
Overcoming aromatase inhibitor resistance in breast cancer: possible mechanisms and clinical applications
Publikationsdatum
07.04.2017
Erschienen in
Breast Cancer / Ausgabe 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1340-6868
Elektronische ISSN: 1880-4233
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-017-0772-1

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