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Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 592–603 (1 August 2004) | doi:10.1038/nrc1412
Pathways of apoptotic and non-apoptotic death in tumour cells
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Abstract
Defects in cell-death pathways are hallmarks of cancer. Although resistance to apoptosis is closely linked to tumorigenesis, tumour cells can still be induced to die by non-apoptotic mechanisms, such as necrosis, senescence, autophagy and mitotic catastrophe. The molecular pathways that underlie these non-apoptotic responses remain unclear. Several apoptotic and non-apoptotic pathways of cell death have been defined in normal physiology and during tumorigenesis, and these could potentially be manipulated to develop new cancer therapies. The mitotic-checkpoint molecule survivin — the inactivation of which induces the death of p53-deficient cells by mitotic catastrophe — is of particular interest.
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