Cancer metabolism is emerging as a promising research area in genitourinary tumors. Both renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and prostate cancer (PCa) cells exhibit marked alterations of their metabolism. These changes include increased aerobic glycolysis (the Warburg effect), increased protein and DNA synthesis and de novo fatty acid (FA) synthesis.
Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying such alterations will represent a major step forward in cancer research. Indeed, reprogramming cancer cell energy metabolism represents a promising hallmark of cancer and may pave the way for novel personalized approaches. This review is focused on the metabolic alterations that occur in RCC and PCa and describes the mechanisms underlying such metabolic changes.
Current drug metabolism. 2015 Oct 15 [Epub ahead of print]
Chiara Ciccarese, Matteo Santoni, Francesco Massari, Alessandra Modena, Francesco Piva, Alessandro Conti, Roberta Mazzucchelli, Liang Cheng, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Marina Scarpelli, Giampaolo Tortora, Rodolfo Montironi
Pathological Anatomy, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, School of Medicine, United Hospitals, Torrette, Ancona, Italy.