Hypoxia makes chemo-radiation therapeutics less effective and renders the metastatic potential more favorable. Emerging research has found that the transcriptional expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1α) promotes the transcription of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) and Hexokinase-I (HK-I), which are associated to cellular growth, angiogenesis, and metastatic invasion in many malignancies.
In the present study, Farooq and colleagues evaluated the expression of hypoxia-associated metabolic and angiogenesis markers like HIF-1α, VEGFA, and Hexokinase-I in different sub groups of breast cancers to investigate whether anti-HIF-1 could be employed as a therapeutic target to impede the role of VEGFA and HK-I in tumor development and progression in different sub-types of breast cancer.
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