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Wt p53 impairs response to chemotherapy: make lemonade to spare normal cells

As published recently in Cancer Cell, p53 impairs the apoptotic response to chemotherapy and clinical outcome in breast cancer. I discuss that, while treating tumors lacking wt p53, this phenomenon can be exploited to protect normal cells from chemotherapy because all normal cells have wt p53. Also,...

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Autor principal: Blagosklonny, Mikhail V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Impact Journals LLC 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3442293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22802145
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Sumario:As published recently in Cancer Cell, p53 impairs the apoptotic response to chemotherapy and clinical outcome in breast cancer. I discuss that, while treating tumors lacking wt p53, this phenomenon can be exploited to protect normal cells from chemotherapy because all normal cells have wt p53. Also, several therapeutic paradigms can be reassessed, including the role of cellular senescence in cancer therapy.