Toward precision medicine of breast cancer

Theor Biol Med Model. 2016 Feb 29:13:7. doi: 10.1186/s12976-016-0035-4.

Abstract

In this review, we report on breast cancer's molecular features and on how high throughput technologies are helping in understanding the dynamics of tumorigenesis and cancer progression with the aim of developing precision medicine methods. We first address the current state of the art in breast cancer therapies and challenges in order to progress towards its cure. Then, we show how the interaction of high-throughput technologies with in silico modeling has led to set up useful inferences for promising strategies of target-specific therapies with low secondary effect incidence for patients. Finally, we discuss the challenge of pharmacogenetics in the clinical practice of cancer therapy. All these issues are explored within the context of precision medicine.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Breast / pathology
  • Breast Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Breast Neoplasms / prevention & control
  • Breast Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Cell Proliferation
  • Computational Biology
  • DNA / metabolism
  • Female
  • Gene Regulatory Networks
  • Hormones / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy / methods
  • Incidence
  • Inflammation
  • Kaplan-Meier Estimate
  • Models, Biological
  • Pharmacogenetics
  • Precision Medicine / methods*
  • Protein Interaction Mapping
  • Proteome
  • Signal Transduction
  • Stem Cells / cytology
  • Transcriptome

Substances

  • Hormones
  • Proteome
  • DNA