What is it about?

This report is an extensive review on breast cancer that covers (i) incidence and prevention, (ii) mammary gland complexity and cell type diagnosis, (iii) carcinogenesis process and consequences for patients, (iii) consequence of tumor heterogeneity on cancer evolution and drug resistance, (iv) hallmarks of cancer, (v) molecular targets for breast cancer treatments, (vi) drug therapy, (vii) hormone therapy, (viii) immunotherapy, (ix) nanoparticle therapy, (x) high throughput technologies to assist precision therapies, (xi) genome sequencing, (xii) transcriptome profiling, (xiii) proteome profiling, (xiv) network modeling, (xv) gene regulatory networks, (xvi) protein-protein interactome, (xvii) relationship between disease and protein networks, (xviii) characterization of protein targets, (xi) challenges of precision therapy, (xx) molecular and physiological effects of drugs in precision therapies, and (xxi) engineering precision therapies.

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The comprehensive coverage of this study is important because it gives a complete view of the problem.

Perspectives

This kind of review allows a deeper thinking and the inference of new solutions.

Nicolas Carels
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

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This page is a summary of: Toward precision medicine of breast cancer, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12976-016-0035-4.
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