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Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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with susceptibility to breast cancer ( Wagner et al. 2007 , 2020 ), no direct links between acromegalic subjects and breast cancer were observed up until 2016 ( Boguszewski & Ayuk 2016 ). Moreover, Petrossians et al. (2017) conducted a study in
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et al. 2022 c ). Mammary cancer Our interest in the role of GH in carcinogenesis arose from asking why an early full-term pregnancy reduces a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer. McMahon and colleagues studied women from around the world
Instituto de Endocrinología IEMYR, Quito, Ecuador
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death risk for cancer except for hepatocellular, colorectal, postmenopausal breast, and epithelial ovarian cancer. No increase in pancreatic cancer was noted ( Sun et al. 2022 ). Along with strong associations between obesity and cancer mortality
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closely linked to malignancy; for example, integrin β3 expression is associated with malignant breast cancer phenotypes, whereas β6 is more closely linked to less aggressive tumors ( Singh et al. 2018 ). Integrins α6β4 and αvβ3 are frequently
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Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
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high degree of sequence similarity of human GH and PRL ( Xu et al. 2013 ). In several cancers like that of the breast and prostate, PRLR expression is often found upregulated and inversely correlated with survival. In such cancers, GH is expected to
Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Auckland, New Zealand
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Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Auckland, New Zealand
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this pathway as a therapeutic target. However, this has not yet translated into clinical trials. Encouragingly though, two studies have reported anticancer efficacy for a GHR antagonist in individual patients with liver cancer and male breast cancer in
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that metastases could be suppressed after hypophysectomy led to treatment of advanced cancers in humans, particularly those of the breast and prostate, with surgical ablation of the pituitary, mainly in the 1950s and early1960s ( Bailey 1956 ). At that
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Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P R China
The CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P R China
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Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Institute of Biopharmaceutical and Health Engineering, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, P R China
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cultures of primary human mammary carcinoma cells express hGH ( GH1 ) mRNA, secrete hGH to the media, and are responsive to hGH receptor antagonism ( Chiesa et al. 2011 ), a very similar percentage to hGH-positive breast cancer observed in
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risk for breast, prostate, lung, sarcoma and colorectal cancer. These reports highlighted the cardinal role of the GH–IGF-1 axis in cancer etiology. Therefore, it was of basic and clinical interest to investigate the impact of lifelong IGF-1 deficiency
Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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cellular and mice models. Moreover, a genome-wide association study identified GH-induced intracellular signaling pathways to be highly associated with breast cancer susceptibility ( Menashe et al. 2010 ). GH and IGF1 are key players in cell regulation