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Testosterone in Androgen Receptor Signaling and DNA Repair: Enemy or Frenemy?

Chua ML, Bristow RG

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2016

Abstract

Androgen suppression mediates transcriptional downregulation of DNA repair genes. Stimulation with supraphysiologic levels of dihydrotestosterone induces formation of lethal DNA breaks through recruitment of topoisomerase II enzymes to fragile DNA sites. Bipolar castration and stimulation that contributes to increasing DNA damage represents a novel strategy of sensitizing prostate cancer to cytotoxic therapies, including radiotherapy. Clin Cancer Res; 22(13); 3124-6. ©2016 AACRSee related article by Hedayati et al., p. 3310.

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