Irene Valle, Thomas Grinda, Lorenzo Antonuzzo, Barbara Pistilli
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Abstract
Although antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) revolutionized cancer treatment, especially in breast cancer, resistance remains a major challenge. It may involve target expression and distribution, linker stability, ADC intratumor penetration and intracellular internalization, payload activity but also interaction with the tumor microenvironment. Strategies to overcome resistance under investigation include combination therapies, novel payloads, and next-generation ADC designs. The identification of predictive biomarkers may also help guide treatment selection and prevent resistance.
期刊介绍:
npj Breast Cancer publishes original research articles, reviews, brief correspondence, meeting reports, editorial summaries and hypothesis generating observations which could be unexplained or preliminary findings from experiments, novel ideas, or the framing of new questions that need to be solved. Featured topics of the journal include imaging, immunotherapy, molecular classification of disease, mechanism-based therapies largely targeting signal transduction pathways, carcinogenesis including hereditary susceptibility and molecular epidemiology, survivorship issues including long-term toxicities of treatment and secondary neoplasm occurrence, the biophysics of cancer, mechanisms of metastasis and their perturbation, and studies of the tumor microenvironment.