Approaches to Treatment of Cancers (I)

It is well known that cancer is one of the most serious diseases in the world. So far, a variety of cancers are profoundly studies by scientists. Lots of therapy strategies (e.g. chemotherapy, therapies targeted to specific target molecules et al.) for cancers were successfully discovered and invented, and applied to clinical patients. All of these provide promising help to patients with cancers and relieve their sufferings.

In cancer, angiogenesis plays a critical role in growth, invasion, and metastasis. It is reported that inhibition of tumor angiogenesis can prevent growth of cancer. So, how do we block tumor angiogenesis? A potential target molecule EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) for treatment of cancer was discovered and validated. EGFR belongs to the ErbB/HER family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) which also includes HER2 (ErbB2), HER3 (ErbB3) and HER4 (ErbB4). Commonly, EGFR is significantly up-regulated in human tumors. EGFR is associated with increased tumor proliferation, survival and dissemination making it an attractive target for anticancer therapy. Potent EGFR inhibitors (e.g. AZD8931, BMS-599626 et al ) knockdown the expression of EGFR and further diminish tumor angiogenesis in order to treat cancer.[1]

The structures of  the two potent EGFR inhibitors  tosedostat , BMS-599626 are as follows:

As a recent study reported, fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR)-1 was involved in angiogenesis. In the process of prostate cancer (Cap) progression, significant increase was observed in vascular volume seven days following FGFR1 activation. Surprisingly, it was discovered that continued activation of FGFR1 was not required to maintain the new blood vessels. Consistent up-regulation of HIF-1alpha, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and angiopoietin 2 (Ang-2) were observed, while Ang-1 levels was down-regulated. Reporter assays confirmed that FGFR1 was modulated Ang-2 promoter and a potent (IC50 = 5 and 21.5 nM for FGFR-3 and FGFR-1, respectively) inhibitor of FGFR activity, PD173074, could reverse it. However, Peetra U et al. reported that FGFR-1 negatively regulates endothelial cell function through shifting the balance of regulative cell factors,

Fig. 1. The structure of AZD8931. AZD8931 is a novel potent reversible small molecule epidermal growth factor receptor, ERBB2 (HER2) and ERBB3 inhibitor with  IC50 of 4, 3 and 4 nM, respectively.

Fig. 2. The structure of BMS-599626. BMS-599626 is a highly selective pan-HERKinase inhibitor with IC50 of 20 and 30 nM for the inhibition of HER1and HER2, respectively.

Reference:
[1] Kamath S et al. Med Res Rev. 2006 Sep;26(5):569-94.

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Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home–A Memoir By Lise Funderburg $15 <I>Pig Candy</i> is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he’d escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed <I>Black, White, Other</i>, comes to understand his rich and difficult background and the conflicting choices he has had to make throughout his life.<P> Lise Funderburg is a child of the ’60s, a white-looking mixed-race girl raised in an integrated Philadelphia neighborhood. As a child, she couldn’t imagine what had made her father so strict, demanding, and elusive; about his past she knew only that he had grown up in the Jim Crow South and fled its brutal oppression as a young man. Then, just as she hits her forties, her father is diagnosed with advanced and terminal cancer — an event that leads father and daughter together on a stream of pilgrimages to his hometown in rural Jasper County, Georgia. As her father’s escort, proxy, and, finally, nurse, Funderburg encounters for the first time the fragrant landscape and fraught society — and the extraordinary food — of his childhood.<P> In succulent, evocative, and sometimes tart prose, the author brings to life a fading rural South of pecan groves, family-run farms, and pork-laden country cuisine. She chronicles small-town relationships that span generations, the dismantling of her own assumptions about when race does and doesn’t matter, and the quiet segregation that persists to this day. As Funderburg discovers the place and people her father comes from, she also, finally, gets to know her magnetic, idiosyncratic father himself. Her account of their thorny but increasingly close relationship is full of warmth, humor, and disarming candor. In one of his last grand actsFunderburg’s father recruits his children, neighbors, and friends to throw a pig roast — an unforgettable meal that caps an unforgettable portrait of a man enjoying his life and

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