Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer

L Wang, L Lankhorst, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Senescence is a cellular response to a variety of stress signals that is characterized by a
stable withdrawal from the cell cycle and major changes in cell morphology and physiology …

Senescence and cancer—role and therapeutic opportunities

CA Schmitt, B Wang, M Demaria - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular senescence is a state of stable, terminal cell cycle arrest associated with various
macromolecular changes and a hypersecretory, pro-inflammatory phenotype. Entry of cells …

Multidrug resistance in cancer: understanding molecular mechanisms, immunoprevention and therapeutic approaches

TB Emran, A Shahriar, AR Mahmud, T Rahman… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Several treatments are available for
cancer treatment, but many treatment methods are ineffective against multidrug-resistant …

Cellular senescence: aging, cancer, and injury

A Calcinotto, J Kohli, E Zagato… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Cellular senescence is a permanent state of cell cycle arrest that occurs in proliferating cells
subjected to different stresses. Senescence is, therefore, a cellular defense mechanism that …

Regulation of human telomerase in homeostasis and disease

CM Roake, SE Artandi - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex, the catalytic core of which includes the
telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and the non-coding human telomerase RNA (hTR) …

Chemotherapy induces senescence-like resilient cells capable of initiating AML recurrence

C Duy, M Li, M Teater, C Meydan, FE Garrett-Bakelman… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) frequently relapse after chemotherapy, yet the
mechanism by which AML reemerges is not fully understood. Herein, we show that primary …

The cell-cycle arrest and apoptotic functions of p53 in tumor initiation and progression

J Chen - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
P53 is a transcription factor highly inducible by many stress signals such as DNA damage,
oncogene activation, and nutrient deprivation. Cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis are the most …

Therapy-induced senescence: an “old” friend becomes the enemy

T Saleh, S Bloukh, VJ Carpenter, E Alwohoush… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
For the past two decades, cellular senescence has been recognized as a central component
of the tumor cell response to chemotherapy and radiation. Traditionally, this form of …

Anthracyclines as topoisomerase II poisons: from early studies to new perspectives

J Marinello, M Delcuratolo, G Capranico - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Mammalian DNA topoisomerases II are targets of anticancer anthracyclines that act by
stabilizing enzyme-DNA complexes wherein DNA strands are cut and covalently linked to …

Senescent cells in cancer therapy: friends or foes?

B Wang, J Kohli, M Demaria - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Several cancer interventions induce DNA damage and promote senescence in cancer and
nonmalignant cells. Senescent cells secrete a collection of proinflammatory factors …