Malaria and Cancer: a critical review on the established associations and new perspectives.

Autor: Ellis T; King's College London, School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Guy's Campus, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, UK., Eze E; Malaria no More UK, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, Vauxhall, London, SE11 5RR, UK., Raimi-Abraham BT; King's College London, School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Waterloo Campus, Franklin Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH, UK. Bahijja.Raimi-Abraham@kcl.ac.uk.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Infectious agents and cancer [Infect Agent Cancer] 2021 May 13; Vol. 16 (1), pp. 33. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 13.
DOI: 10.1186/s13027-021-00370-7
Abstrakt: Objectives: Cancer and malaria both have high incidence rates and are leading causes of mortality worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries with reduced access to the quality healthcare. The objective of this critical review was to summarize key associations and new perspectives between the two diseases as is reported in existing literature.
Methods: A critical review of research articles published between 1st January 2000 - 1st July 2020 which yielded 1753 articles. These articles were screened based on a precise inclusion criteria. Eighty-nine eligible articles were identified and further evaluated.
Results: Many articles reported anti-cancer activities of anti-malarial medicines, including Artemisinin and its derivatives. Other articles investigated the use of chemotherapy in areas burdened by malaria, treatment complications that malaria may cause for cancer patients as well as ways to circumvent cancer related drug resistance. Potential novel targets for cancer treatment, were identified namely oncofoetal chondroitin sulphate and haem, as well as the use of circumsporozoite proteins. A number of articles also discussed Burkitt lymphoma or febrile neutropenia.
Conclusions: Overall, excluding for Burkitt lymphoma, the relationship between cancer and malaria requires further extensive research in order to define association. There great potential promising new novel anti-cancer therapies using anti-malarial drugs. Created using BioRender.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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