Authors: M M Lino A Merlo
Publish Date: 2010/11/10
Volume: 103, Issue: 3, Pages: 417-427
Abstract
Glioblastoma GBM is the most common primary tumor of the CNS in the adult It is characterized by exponential growth and diffuse invasiveness Among many different genetic alterations in GBM eg mutations of PTEN EGFR p16/p19 and p53 and their impact on aberrant signaling have been thoroughly characterized A major barrier to develop a common therapeutic strategy is founded on the fact that each tumor has its individual genetic fingerprint Nonetheless the PI3K pathway may represent a common therapeutic target to most GBM due to its central position in the signaling cascade affecting proliferation apoptosis and migration The readout of blocking PI3K alone or in combination with other cancer pathways should mainly focus besides the cytostatic effect on cell death induction since sublethal damage may induce selection of more malignant clones Targeting more than one pathway instead of a single agent approach may be more promising to kill GBM cells
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