ReviewCancers2022
How Far beyond Diabetes Can the Benefits of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Go? A Review of the Evidence on Their Effects on Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists on prostate cancer risk reduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International urology and nephrology · 2025Pooled it
- Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Glucagon-like Peptide-1 receptor agonist treatment in patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC endocrine disorders · 2024Pooled it
- GLP-1 receptor agonists in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: mechanistic networks and translational implications: a review.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2026Review
- HMGA2 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression by regulating tumor-associated macrophage via Notch1/CCL2 signaling.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2026Article
- Beyond diabetes and obesity: GLP-1 receptor agonists as multifunctional therapeutics across the steatotic liver disease spectrum.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- The mechanisms of GLP-1 receptor agonists in liver diseases: their multifaceted impact on immune response and metabolic regulation.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Assessing the Oncological Safety of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2025Review
- Incretins and SGLT-2 inhibitors in diabetic patients with neuroendocrine tumors: current updates and future directions.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Review
- Incretin-Based Therapies and Cancer: What's New?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- Immunology and treatments of fatty liver disease.Archives of toxicology · 2025Review
- Association between glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use and progression of monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance to multiple myeloma among patients with diabetes.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2024Article
- Repurposing metabolic regulators: antidiabetic drugs as anticancer agents.Molecular biomedicine · 2024Review
- Mechanisms by Which Pharmacotherapy May Impact Cancer Risk among Individuals with Overweight and Obesity.Cancers · 2024Review
- Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor: mechanisms and advances in therapy.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024 · on this mapReview
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- Integrating single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing reveals CK19 + cancer stem cells and their specific SPP1 + tumor-associated macrophage niche in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma.Hepatology international · 2024Article
- The emerging role of GLP-1 receptor agonists in treating or preventing cancer.Cancer drug resistance (Alhambra, Calif.) · 2024Article
- The Current Place of DPP4 Inhibitors in the Evolving Landscape of Type 2 Diabetes Management: Is It Time to Bid Adieu?American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2023Article
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Abstract
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is characterized by poor survival rate and quality of life, while available treatments remain generally limited. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) originally emerged as drugs for the management of diabetes, but have also been shown to alleviate cardiorenal risk. Furthermore, they have demonstrated a wide range of extraglycemic effects that led to their evaluation as potential therapies for a variety of diseases beyond diabetes, such as obesity, neurogenerative disorders and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Given the presence of the GLP-1 receptor in hepatocytes, animal data suggest that GLP-1 RAs could regulate molecular pathways that are deeply involved in the genesis and progression of HCC, including inflammatory responses, tumor cell proliferation and oxidative stress, through direct and indirect effects on liver cells. However, future studies must assess several aspects of the benefit-to-risk ratio of the use of GLP-1 RAs in patients with HCC, including co-administration with approved systemic therapies, the incidence of gastrointestinal side effects in a high-risk population, and weight loss management in individuals with poor nutritional status and high rates of cancer cachexia. In this narrative review, we discuss the potential role of GLP-1 analogs in the treatment of HCC, focusing on the molecular mechanisms that could justify a possible benefit, but also referring to the potential clinical implications and areas for future research.
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