PMID- 23838481 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140130 LR - 20220330 IS - 1879-0461 (Electronic) IS - 1040-8428 (Linking) VI - 87 IP - 2 DP - 2013 Aug TI - Bone effects of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition with everolimus. PG - 101-11 LID - S1040-8428(13)00118-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2013.05.015 [doi] AB - Patients with breast cancer face substantial challenges to bone health from bone metastases, as well as from chemotherapy and endocrine therapies that generally elicit disease control at the cost of increased bone turnover. Consequently, maintaining bone health is of critical importance for these patients. Recently reported results from BOLERO-2 showed significant clinical benefits with adding everolimus to exemestane therapy in postmenopausal women with estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer recurring or progressing despite nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor therapy. Moreover, exploratory analyses from BOLERO-2 showed that adding everolimus may have beneficial effects on bone turnover and progressive disease in bone in this patient population. These results are supported by preclinical studies in which mTOR inhibition was associated with decreased osteoclast survival and activity. Thus, everolimus therapy may be able to ameliorate the negative effects of estrogen suppression on bone health. This review discusses the effects of mTOR inhibition on bone health during endocrine therapy. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.. All rights reserved. FAU - Hadji, Peyman AU - Hadji P AD - Department of Gynecology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany. hadji@med.uni-marburg.de FAU - Coleman, Robert AU - Coleman R FAU - Gnant, Michael AU - Gnant M LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20130706 PL - Netherlands TA - Crit Rev Oncol Hematol JT - Critical reviews in oncology/hematology JID - 8916049 RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents) RN - 9HW64Q8G6G (Everolimus) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - W36ZG6FT64 (Sirolimus) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antineoplastic Agents/*pharmacology/therapeutic use MH - Bone Neoplasms/drug therapy/metabolism/secondary MH - Bone and Bones/*drug effects/*metabolism MH - Breast Neoplasms/drug therapy/metabolism/pathology MH - Everolimus MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Sirolimus/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology/therapeutic use MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - Aromatase inhibitors OT - Bone OT - Breast cancer OT - Everolimus OT - Postmenopausal women OT - mTOR EDAT- 2013/07/11 06:00 MHDA- 2014/01/31 06:00 CRDT- 2013/07/11 06:00 PHST- 2013/03/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/05/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/05/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/07/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/07/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/01/31 06:00 [medline] AID - S1040-8428(13)00118-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2013.05.015 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2013 Aug;87(2):101-11. doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2013.05.015. Epub 2013 Jul 6.