Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

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Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

2010, vol. 19, nr 1, January-February, p. 5–12

Publication type: editorial article

Language: English

Mechanisms of Resistance to Cancer Chemotherapy

Mechanizmy oporności w chemioterapii nowotworów

Ewa Stefanko1,, Tomasz Wróbel1,

1 Department of Hematology, Blood Neoplasms, and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland

Abstract

Resistance to chemotherapy is one of the major causes of failure of anticancer treatment. It can occur at every level of the drug action and includes mechanisms such as increased drug efflux and decreased influx, drug inactivation, alterations in the drug target, DNA damage repair, and evasion of apoptosis. In this article some mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy are reviewed.

Streszczenie

Oporność na chemioterapię jest jedną z głównych przyczyn niepowodzeń leczenia przeciwnowotworowego. Zjawisko to może pojawić się na każdym poziomie działania leku i obejmuje takie mechanizmy, jak: zmniejszony pobór leku przez komórkę lub jego zwiększone usuwanie, inaktywację leku, zmniejszenie lub zwiększenie stężenia/ /aktywności miejsca docelowego działania leku, naprawa uszkodzonego przez cytostatyki DNA oraz zmiany w regulacji apoptozy. W artykule omówiono niektóre mechanizmy oporności na cytostatyki w komórkach nowotworowych.

Key words

resistance to chemotherapy, cancer cells, leukemia, lymphomas

Słowa kluczowe

oporność na chemioterapię, komórki nowotworowe, białaczka, chłoniaki

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