title: [Genetic bases of the radiosensitivity of breast cancer].
abstract: Local-regional radiation therapy is one of the major therapeutic means in the management of breast cancer. Three questions however arise from the important advances achieved in this domain in the past years. The first question concerns the possibilities to identify and overcome the radioresistance of a subset of tumours. The second question is how to recognize women likely to benefit from adjuvant radiation therapy, and therefore to diminish treatment indications in other groups. Finally, the third question is how to identify subjects at high risk for long term injury following breast irradiation, in order to adapt techniques and indications in such populations. The major advances of breast cancer molecular genetics in the past years should provide clinicians with tools to answer these important questions. In this paper, we review the molecular germline (BRCA1, BRCA2, ATM, ...) and somatic (p53, tyrosine kinase receptors, as well as actors of cell cycle, signal transduction, apoptosis, DNA repair ...) main bases of breast cancer radiosensitivity. Recent methods of exploration of the genetic background of both the host and the tumours (gene and protein expression profiles) are also reviewed as major tools of breast cancer management in the next few years.
authors.affiliation: Département de médecine, comité de pathologie mammaire et oncogénétique, institut Gustave-Roussy, 39, rue Camille-Desmoulins, 94800 Villejuif, France. delaloge@igr.fr
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Delaloge
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Marsiglia
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics* / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D004260:DNA Repair; D005260:Female; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D019398:Genes, BRCA1; D024522:Genes, BRCA2; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy; D009154:Mutation; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011836:Radiation Tolerance / Q000235:genetics*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases