Cancer Hallmarks and MicroRNAs: The Therapeutic Connection

Katrien Van Roosbroeck, George A. Calin

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Abstract

Human cancers are characterized by a number of hallmarks, including sustained proliferative signaling, evasion of growth suppressors, activated invasion and metastasis, replicative immortality, angiogenesis, resistance to cell death, and evasion of immune destruction. As microRNAs (miRNAs) are deregulated in virtually all human cancers, they show involvement in each of the cancer hallmarks as well. In this chapter, we describe the involvement of miRNAs in cancer from a cancer hallmarks and targeted therapeutics point of view. As no miRNA-based cancer therapeutics are available to date, and the only clinical trial on miRNA-based cancer therapeutics (MRX34) was terminated prematurely due to serious adverse events, we are focusing on protein-coding miRNA targets for which targeted therapeutics in oncology are already approved by the FDA. For each of the cancer hallmarks, we selected major protein-coding players and describe the miRNAs that target them.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cancer Research
PublisherAcademic Press Inc.
Pages119-149
Number of pages31
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Publication series

NameAdvances in Cancer Research
Volume135
ISSN (Print)0065-230X
ISSN (Electronic)2162-5557

Keywords

  • Cancer hallmarks
  • Coding gene targets
  • Immunotherapy
  • Invasion
  • MicroRNAs
  • Proliferation
  • Targeted therapy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oncology
  • Cancer Research

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