title: Inflammatory breast cancer: New factors contribute to disease etiology: A review.
abstract: Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a highly metastatic and fatal form of breast cancer. In fact, IBC is characterized by specific morphological, phenotypic, and biological properties that distinguish it from non-IBC. The aggressive behavior of IBC being more common among young women and the low survival rate alarmed researchers to explore the disease biology. Despite the basic and translational studies needed to understand IBC disease biology and identify specific biomarkers, studies are limited by few available IBC cell lines, experimental models, and paucity of patient samples. Above all, in the last decade, researchers were able to identify new factors that may play a crucial role in IBC progression. Among identified factors are cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, and proteases. In addition, viral infection was also suggested to participate in the etiology of IBC disease. In this review, we present novel factors suggested by different studies to contribute to the etiology of IBC and the proposed new therapeutic insights.
authors: Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt.
authors: Mona M
authors: MM
authors: Mohamed
authors: Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sana'a University, Yemen.
authors: Diaa
authors: D
authors: Al-Raawi
authors: Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt.
authors: Salwa F
authors: SF
authors: Sabet
authors: Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt.
authors: Mohamed
authors: M
authors: El-Shinawi
keywords: Cytokines; Inflammatory breast cancer; Proteases; Viral infection