| Literature DB >> 33456710 |
Krastan B Blagoev1,2, Roumen Iordanov3, Mengxi Zhou4,5, Tito Fojo4,5, Susan E Bates4,5.
Abstract
Most metastatic cancers develop drug resistance during treatment and continue to grow, driven by a subpopulation of cancer cells unresponsive to the therapy being administered. There is evidence that metastases are formed by phenotypically plastic cancer cells with stem-cell like properties. Currently the population structure and growth dynamics of the resulting metastatic tumors is unknown. Here, using scaling analysis of clinical data of tumor burden in patients with metastatic prostate cancer, we show that the drug resistant, metastasis-causing cells (MCC) are capable of producing drug resistant, exponentially growing tumors, responsible for tumor growth as a patient receives different treatments. Copyright:Entities:
Keywords: cancer stem cells; drug resistance; exponential growth; metastatic prostate cancer; tumor kinetics
Year: 2021 PMID: 33456710 PMCID: PMC7800777 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.27855
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Oncotarget ISSN: 1949-2553