Endocrine Abstracts

Kinases represent a main therapeutic targets in cancer treatment as their impairing is related to tumor growth and progression. Despite the increasing evidence that tumor microenvironment (TME) signaling influences the behavior of surrounding cancer epithelial cells, still little is known about what changes in stromal cells influence tumor cells’ behavior. TNBC patients are still lacking an effective therapy, as not much is known about the biology of this BC tumor subtype...

Introduction: Broncho-Pulmonary Neoplasms (BP-NENs) are rare neoplasms arising from neuroendocrine cells of the respiratory epithelium. Since previous studies in our lab have demonstrated the efficacy ofEverolimus, approved for BP-NENs treatment, and Dinaciclib, a Cyclins and CdKs inhibitor, on monolayer system we have investigated if a more complex tumour system could generate a change in drugs effects and cell resistance. Therefore, through the use of 3D culture model, we ha...

Background: Available medical treatments for Broncho-Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Neoplasm (BP-NENs) derived from clinical trials are not specific for the management of this malignancy. Sunitinib, a multi-receptor tyrosine-kinases (RTKs) inhibitor, mainly described as VEGFR inhibitor, has shown its efficacy in Pancreatic NENs but there are not available data about its action in BP-NENs. Our aim was to understand the effects of RTKs inhibition promoted by Sunitinib in order to eval...