Targeting autophagy during cancer therapy to improve clinical outcomes
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Targeting autophagy during cancer therapy to improve clinical outcomes
Abstract
Autophagy is a catabolic process that turns over long-lived proteins and organelles and contributes to cell and organism survival in times of stress. Current cancer therapies including chemotherapy and radiation are known to induce autophagy within tumor cells. This is therefore an attractive process to target during cancer therapy as there are safe, clinically available drugs known to both inhibit and stimulate autophagy. However, there are conflicting positive and negative effects of autophagy and no current consensus on how to manipulate autophagy to improve clinical outcomes. Careful and rigorous evaluation of autophagy with a focus on how to translate laboratory findings into relevant clinical therapies remains an important aspect of improving clinical outcomes in patients with malignant disease.
Copyright © 2011. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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