Opinion - The role of apoptosis in cancer development and treatment response

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Brown, JM [1 ]
Attardi, LD [1 ]
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[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Radiat Oncol, Div Radiat & Canc Biol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
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10.1038/nrc1560
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R73 [肿瘤学];
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The inactivation of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is central to the development of cancer. This disabling of apoptotic responses might be a major contributor both to treatment resistance and to the observation that, in many tumours, apoptosis is not the main mechanism for the death of cancer cells in response to common treatment regimens. Importantly, this suggests that other modes of cell death are involved in the response to therapy.
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