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Senescence, apoptosis, and cancer

The Molecular Basis of Human Cancer, Page: 183-196
2016
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Cancer cured in mice! Sounds hilarious to a nonacademic naive public, but for cancer researchers, every bit of information about cancer from worms, flies, and mice to human is immensely valuable. For a cancer biologist, it is not important to know in which living species on earth the cancer was cured, but how it was cured. We have learned a lot about the intricacy of signaling molecules and the underlying mechanisms involved in oncogenesis and cancer treatment. In this chapter, we review two important cellular properties, which are lost during cancer progression. These two properties, namely senescence and apoptosis, act as strong natural barriers to cancer. Vast majority of literature suggest that chemotherapeutics stop cancer progression by inducing apoptosis or cell death. In addition, the current literature also suggests that restoration of senescence in cancer cells by chemotherapeutic agents results in inhibition of cancer progression and in some cases even tumor regression.

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