title: Targeting autophagy in breast cancer.
abstract: Macroautophagy (referred to as autophagy here) is an intracellular degradation pathway enhanced in response to a variety of stresses and in response to nutrient deprivation. This process provides the cell with nutrients and energy by degrading aggregated and damaged proteins as well as compromised organelles. Since autophagy has been linked to diverse diseases including cancer, it has recently become a very interesting target in breast cancer treatment. Indeed, current clinical trials are trying to use chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, alone or in combination with other drugs to inhibit autophagy during breast cancer therapy since chemotherapy and radiation, regimens that are used to treat breast cancer, are known to induce autophagy in cancer cells. Importantly, in breast cancer, autophagy has been involved in the development of resistance to chemotherapy and to anti-estrogens. Moreover, a close relationship has recently been described between autophagy and the HER2 receptor. Here, we discuss some of the recent findings relating autophagy and cancer with a particular focus on breast cancer therapy.
authors.affiliation: Paola Maycotte, Andrew Thorburn, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, United States.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maycotte
authors.affiliation: Paola Maycotte, Andrew Thorburn, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, United States.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thorburn
keywords: Autophagy; Breast cancer; Cancer; Chemotherapy; Estrogen receptor; HER2; Radiation; Triple negative breast cancer
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