The development of resistance to chemotherapy by tumor cells remains a constant limitation to the treatment of cancer. Over the last several years, fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) has emerged as a growth factor that is capable of modifying the sensitivity of normal and tumor cells to anti-cancer drugs. FGF-2 can produce both drug resistance and drug sensitization in different cell types treated with a variety of cytotoxic agents. An understanding of the differential cellular trafficking and biological activities of the multiple FGF-2 isoforms will help in determining the circumstances tinder which FGF-2 acts to inhibit versus potentiate drug action. Recent advances suggest that expression of FGF-2 in tumor cells is involved with loss of response to chemotherapy in vivo. Thus, the manipulation of FGF-2 activities to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic agents may have important clinical implications. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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