Issue 1 (2011)

The possibility of COX-2 selective inhibitor use in the treatment of patients with malignancies has been considered. A group of COX-2 selective inhibitors has been presented with coxibs: celecoxib, NS-398, nimesulide, meloxicam. There has been demonstrated the role of the COX-2 blockers in risk decrease of four most common malignant tumors: breast cancer (by 71%), prostate cancer (by 55%), colon cancer (by 70%) and lung cancer (by 79%). The role of COX-2 inhibitors in the prevention of developing resistance to chemotherapy in the breast cancer cells has been studied. There has been presented the data of the COX-2 inhibitors use as an antitumor treatment component in patients with a metastatic breast cancer in combinations with hormonal treatment in a hormone-positive breast cancer, as well as the results of neoadjuvant combined therapy in patients with a locally advanced cancer in a menopause. The findings presented are indicative of the expediency of the COX-positive tumor selection into a separate group for management optimization and the use of the possibilities of the enzyme expression target control.