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THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1758835920940939
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endocrine resistance; HR positive advanced breast cancer; PIK3 mutations; PI3K; Akt; mTOR inhibitor; PI3K; Akt; mTOR pathway
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Recently many therapeutic classes have emerged in advanced hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer death in women. In absence of visceral crisis, treatment relies on endocrine therapy combined with cyclin dependent kinase 4 and 6 inhibitor. Many mechanisms lead to resistance to endocrine therapy, including the activation of intracellular signaling pathways critical for cell survival. Approximately 70% of breast tumors harbor an alteration in the phosphoinositide 3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway, leading to its hyper activation. This pathway is involved in the regulation of growth, proliferation and cell survival as well as in angiogenesis and is consequently a major target in the oncogenesis. An aberrantPIK3CAmutation is a common phenomenon in breast cancer and found in approximately 40% of patients with advanced hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. For the moment, the only positive trials showing a progression free survival benefit in this population are BOLERO-2 (2012), SOLAR-1 (2019), which tested everolimus, a mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor, and alpelisib, a PI3K inhibitor, and led to their marketing authorization. However, many other inhibitors of this pathway are promising; nevertheless their development is actually limited by toxicity, mainly cutaneous (rash), digestive (diarrhea) and endocrine (diabetes).
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