Women's Cancers, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.
Future Oncol. 2009 Nov;5(9):1429-40. doi: 10.2217/fon.09.103.
Despite the dismal outcome seen in the majority of epithelial ovarian cancer patients, there is ongoing progress in understanding the disease at a molecular level. Elucidation of pathways underlying disease progression and metastasis of ovarian cancer is key to development of targeted therapeutics. It is only in this way that therapeutic potential can be translated to reality. Here, we describe the evidence to date for the role of CSF-1/c-fms signaling in ovarian cancer invasiveness and metastasis, including the recent understanding of how CSF-1/c-fms expression is regulated with identification of significant post-transcriptional regulators.
尽管大多数上皮性卵巢癌患者的预后不佳,但在分子水平上对该疾病的认识仍在不断取得进展。阐明卵巢癌进展和转移的途径是开发靶向治疗的关键。只有这样,治疗潜力才能转化为现实。在这里,我们描述了 CSF-1/c-fms 信号在卵巢癌侵袭和转移中的作用的现有证据,包括最近对 CSF-1/c-fms 表达如何受到调控的理解,以及鉴定出重要的转录后调控因子。