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Clinical Implications of Mutations in the PI3K Pathway in HER2+ Breast Cancer: Prognostic or Predictive?

Clinical Implications of Mutations in the PI3K Pathway in HER2+ Breast Cancer: Prognostic or... Recent advances in tumor genetics and drug development have led to the generation of a wealth of anti-cancer-targeted therapies. These drugs aim at targeting a particular vulnerability in the tumor generated in most cases as a result of dependence on an oncogene and/or loss of a tumor suppressor. Genes in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathway are the most frequently altered in human cancers. Aberrant activation of the PI3K/AKT pathway has been shown to confer resistance to HER2-targeted therapies. Several drugs targeting PI3K/ATK have been developed and are currently in clinical trials in different phases of clinical development, alone or in combination. The impact of mutations in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathway in HER2-amplified breast cancers will be the focus of this review. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Current Breast Cancer Reports Springer Journals

Clinical Implications of Mutations in the PI3K Pathway in HER2+ Breast Cancer: Prognostic or Predictive?

Current Breast Cancer Reports , Volume 7 (4) – Oct 10, 2015

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Oncology; Internal Medicine; Surgical Oncology
ISSN
1943-4588
eISSN
1943-4596
DOI
10.1007/s12609-015-0197-9
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Abstract

Recent advances in tumor genetics and drug development have led to the generation of a wealth of anti-cancer-targeted therapies. These drugs aim at targeting a particular vulnerability in the tumor generated in most cases as a result of dependence on an oncogene and/or loss of a tumor suppressor. Genes in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathway are the most frequently altered in human cancers. Aberrant activation of the PI3K/AKT pathway has been shown to confer resistance to HER2-targeted therapies. Several drugs targeting PI3K/ATK have been developed and are currently in clinical trials in different phases of clinical development, alone or in combination. The impact of mutations in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathway in HER2-amplified breast cancers will be the focus of this review.

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Current Breast Cancer ReportsSpringer Journals

Published: Oct 10, 2015

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