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SUBMITTER: Chism DD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4221359 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chism David D DD De Silva Dinuka D Whang Young E YE
Expert review of anticancer therapy 20140613 11
After initial response to androgen receptor (AR) targeting drugs abiraterone or enzalutamide, most patients develop progressive disease and therefore, castration resistant prostate cancer remains a terminal disease. Multiple mechanisms underlying acquired resistance have been postulated. Intratumoral androgen synthesis may resume after abiraterone treatment. A point mutation in the ligand-binding domain of AR may confer resistance to enzalutamide. Emergence of AR splice variants lacking the liga ...[more]