Lipid metabolism and lung cancer: emerging roles in occurrence, progression, diagnosis and treatment

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8115.2022.12.016

Abstract

Abstract:

Lung cancer is one of the most serious health problems worldwide, and it is crucial to accurately diagnose its severity and staging, assess treatment response and prognosis, and develop new treatment strategies. In recent years, lipidomics has emerged as a new hotspot that focuses on understanding disease-related lipid metabolism, discovering biomarkers and monitoring targets for therapeutic strategies, and providing insights into the lipid profile and pathophysiological mechanisms of lung cancer. Disorders of lipid metabolism are a series of abnormalities in lipid metabolism caused by structural and functional alterations of some genes in tumor cells, which affect cellular functions such as cell cycle, proliferation, growth and differentiation, leading to carcinogenesis. In addition, the specificity of lipid metabolism can be used to identify new metabolic targets for lung cancer treatment, and in clinical practice, lipid-lowering drugs and anti-lipid peroxidation therapy are effective. This article reviews the latest research advances in lipid metabolism in the development, progression, diagnosis, and treatment of lung cancer, focusing on the novel mechanisms by which disorders of lipid metabolism support the growth of lung cancer and the potential targets of lipid metabolism, discusses therapeutic approaches to target lipid metabolic pathways in lung cancer, and presents the future prospects and challenges of lipidomics in lung cancer.

Key words: lung cancer, lipid metabolism disorders, mechanism, therapeutic target

CLC Number:

R734.2

HU Chanchan, FAN Yi, XU Yuan, HU Zhijian, ZENG Yiming. Lipid metabolism and lung cancer: emerging roles in occurrence, progression, diagnosis and treatment[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Medical Science), 2022, 42(12): 1766-1771.

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