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BIOMOLECULES
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom12010007
Keywords
biomarkers; angiogenesis; endometrial cancer; angiogenic factors; anti-angiogenic therapy
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Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in developed countries, requiring invasive evaluation and surgery. Angiogenesis plays a key role in cancer growth, and understanding the characteristics of angiogenic factors can aid in early diagnosis and personalized therapy.
Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most frequent gynecological malignancy in developed countries and requires a relatively invasive diagnostic evaluation and operative therapy as the primary therapeutic approach. Angiogenesis is one of the main processes needed for cancer growth and spread. The production of angiogenic factors (AFs) appears early in the process of carcinogenesis. The detection of AFs in plasma and tissue and a better understanding of the angiogenic properties of EC may contribute not only to earlier but also more specific diagnosis and consequently tailored and individual therapeutic approaches. AFs and their receptors also have high potential as binding sites for targeted cancer therapy. In this review, we discuss angiogenesis in EC and the characteristics of the AFs that most contribute to angiogenesis in EC. We also highlight therapeutic strategies that target angiogenesis as potential EC therapy.
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