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ReviewOncogene2025

Decoding the adaptive survival mechanisms of breast cancer dormancy.

Francis M Barnieh, Jamie Morton, Olaitan Olanrewaju, Sherif F El-Khamisy

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Review in Oncogene, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Francis M BarniehInstitute of Cancer Therapeutics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. f.mprahbarnieh1@bradford.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-6110-2746
Jamie MortonInstitute of Cancer Therapeutics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.
Olaitan OlanrewajuInstitute of Cancer Therapeutics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.
Sherif F El-KhamisyInstitute of Cancer Therapeutics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. s.el-khamisy@bradford.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) recurrence remains a major clinical challenge, leaving patients in perpetual uncertainty about disease relapse after primary treatment. BC dormancy, an adaptive survival state of disseminated tumour cells, is a key driver of both early and late recurrence. However, the mechanisms regulating BC dormancy remain poorly understood. Emerging evidence suggests that tumour hypoxia, extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling, and therapy-induced stress drive dormancy by altering cellular metabolism, gene expression, and immune interactions, enabling long-term survival of dormant BC cells. With no dormancy-specific therapies currently approved, a deeper understanding of dormancy-associated survival mechanisms is crucial for identifying therapeutic targets and developing strategies to eradicate dormant BC cells, thereby preventing recurrence and improving patient outcomes. This review comprehensively examines major dormancy-inducing factors and the adaptive survival mechanisms of dormant BC cells. We also highlight critical gaps in preclinical models that hinder the translation of preclinical cancer dormancy insights into clinical applications and propose potential therapeutic strategies to prevent BC recurrence.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalAnimalsCell SurvivalExtracellular MatrixFemaleHumansTumor Microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40866498
PMCPMC12477053

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