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The role of apoptosis in cancer development and treatment response.

J. Martin Brown, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2005 - 
- Vol. 5, Iss: 3, pp 231-237
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This work has shown that in many tumours, apoptosis is not the main mechanism for the death of cancer cells in response to common treatment regimens, suggesting that other modes of cell death are involved in the response to therapy.
Abstract
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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TL;DR: This work has been supported by the Department of the Army and the National Institutes of Health, and the author acknowledges the support and encouragement of the National Cancer Institute.
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p53, the Cellular Gatekeeper for Growth and Division

TL;DR: The author regrets the lack of citations for many important observations mentioned in the text, but their omission is made necessary by restrictions in the preparation of review manuscripts.
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Methylation-specific PCR: a novel PCR assay for methylation status of CpG islands

TL;DR: The use of MSP is demonstrated to identify promoter region hypermethylation changes associated with transcriptional inactivation in four important tumor suppressor genes (p16, p15, E-cadherin and von Hippel-Lindau) in human cancer.
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Radiobiology for the radiologist

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Live or let die: the cell's response to p53

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