The Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors in Breast Cancer: from Oncogenesis to Better Treatments.

ABSTRACT: Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent form of malignancy and second only to lung cancer as cause of deaths in women. Notwithstanding many progresses made in the field, metastatic BC has a very poor prognosis. As therapies are becoming more personalized to meet the needs of patients, a better knowledge of the molecular biology leading to the disease unfolds the possibility to project more precise compounds or antibodies targeting definite alteration at the molecular level and functioning on such cancer-causing molecules expressed in cancer cells of patients, or present as antigens on the surface of cancer cell membranes. Fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) is one of such druggable targets, activated by its own ligands -namely the Fibroblast Growth Factors (FGFs). This pathway provide

SUBMITTER: Navid S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7139621 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature