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Emerging mechanisms of resistance to androgen receptor inhibitors in prostate cancer

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Watson, Philip A., Arora, Vivek K., Sawyers, Charles L.·2015·Nature Reviews Cancer

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During the past 10 years, preclinical studies implicating sustained androgen receptor (AR) signalling as the primary driver of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have led to the development of novel agents targeting the AR pathway that are now in widespread clinical use. These drugs prolong the survival of patients with late-stage prostate cancer but are not curative. In this Review, we highlight emerging mechanisms of acquired resistance to these contemporary therapies, which fall into the three broad categories of restored AR signalling, AR bypass signalling and complete AR independence. This diverse range of resistance mechanisms presents new challenges for long-term disease control, which may be addressable through early use of combination therapies guided by recent insights from genomic landscape studies of CRPC.

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  • ARi resistance is frequently mediated by upregulation of DNA repair pathways and alternative survival mechanisms.

    “ARi resistance is frequently mediated by upregulation of DNA repair pathways and alternative survival mechanisms40.”

    From The evolving landscape of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for treatment of prostate cancer (2025) · cites this paper as [40]

    The Androgen Receptor Bypass Signaling section describes an alternative resistance mechanism involving upregulation of the glucocorticoid receptor. But Future Therapeutic Options for CRPC describes DNA-repair gene mutations and deficient repair, not upregulation of DNA-repair pathways as a frequent mediator of AR-inhibitor resistance. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Aggressive PCa frequently escapes AR-targeted therapies by reactivating AR signaling.

    “However, aggressive PCa frequently escapes these therapies by reactivating AR signaling19.”

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Authors
Watson, P. A., Arora, V. K., & Sawyers, C. L.
Affiliations
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
Corresponding author
  • Watson, Philip A.
  • Sawyers, Charles L.
Venue
Nature Reviews Cancer
Published
2015-11-13
Volume
15
Issue
12
Pages
701-711
ISSN
  • 1474-175X (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-1768
OpenAlex
W2181283187
Cited by
1,536
References
148
Citations by year
2026: 138 · 2025: 188 · 2024: 164 · 2023: 171 · 2022: 168 · 2021: 168 · 2020: 131 · 2019: 131 · 2018: 106 · 2017: 100 · 2016: 66 · 2015: 3
FWCI
16.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature reviews. Cancer (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (SU2C/AACR)
  • National Cancer Institute (T32CA160001, R01 CA19387‑01, R01CA155169, P30CA008748, P50CA092629, R01CA193837)
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC019387)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Keywords
castration-resistant prostate cancer, androgen receptor antagonists, acquired drug resistance, androgen receptor signaling, combination therapy
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Male, Prostatic Neoplasms, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Androgen Receptor Antagonists

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