The Achilles' heel of cancer survivors: fundamentals of accelerated cellular senescence.
The Achilles' heel of cancer survivors: fundamentals of accelerated cellular senescence.
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癌症幸存者的阿喀琉斯之踵:加速细胞衰老的基本原理。
DOI:
10.1172/jci158452
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发表时间:
2022-07-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
Hashmi, Shahrukh K.
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作者:
Shafqat, Shameel;Chicas, Evelyn Arana;Shafqat, Areez;Hashmi, Shahrukh K.
Recent improvements in cancer treatment have increased the lifespan of pediatric and adult cancer survivors. However, cancer treatments accelerate aging in survivors, which manifests clinically as the premature onset of chronic diseases, such as endocrinopathies, osteoporosis, cardiac dysfunction, subsequent cancers, and geriatric syndromes of frailty, among others. Therefore, cancer treatment–induced early aging accounts for significant morbidity, mortality, and health expenditures among cancer survivors. One major mechanism driving this accelerated aging is cellular senescence; cancer treatments induce cellular senescence in tumor cells and in normal, nontumor tissue, thereby helping mediate the onset of several chronic diseases. Studies on clinical monitoring and therapeutic targeting of cellular senescence have made considerable progress in recent years. Large-scale clinical trials are currently evaluating senotherapeutic drugs, which inhibit or eliminate senescent cells to ameliorate cancer treatment–related aging. In this article, we survey the recent literature on phenotypes and mechanisms of aging in cancer survivors and provide an up-to-date review of the major preclinical and translational evidence on cellular senescence as a mechanism of accelerated aging in cancer survivors, as well as insight into the potential of senotherapeutic drugs. However, only with time will the clinical effect of senotherapies on cancer survivors be visible.