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Defective Apoptosis Signaling in Cancer

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Apoptosis is critically important during development, facilitating the sculpting and molding of tissues, and in the adult, acting to maintain homeostasis of cell numbers. Apoptosis also plays a key role in immune-mediated elimination of infected or transformed target cells. In addition, apoptosis drives cellular suicide following damage to DNA or other cell components, including damage resulting from treatment with chemotherapy or radiation. In view of the fundamental importance of apoptotic cell death, it is, perhaps, not surprising that defects in apoptosis signaling are involved in a number of human diseases, including the development and progression of human malignancies. Efforts to promote therapeutic elimination of cancer cells via induction of apoptosis will benefit from more complete understanding of normal apoptosis signaling and the defects in apoptosis which frequently occur in human tumors. This chapter will describe the elucidation of the intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis signaling pathways and focus on the defects in these pathways that have commonly been observed in cancers.

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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants R01 CA137260 and P50 CA097190. A vast number of researchers have made important contributions to the work described in this review. We apologize to those authors whose work we have not cited.

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Johnson, D.E. (2013). Defective Apoptosis Signaling in Cancer. In: Johnson, D. (eds) Cell Death Signaling in Cancer Biology and Treatment. Cell Death in Biology and Diseases. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5847-0_1

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