Apoptosis, cancer therapy, and beyond

摘要

Apoptosis as a primary cause or a secondary effect in various diseases seems to represent a very attractive 'target' for the development of new therapeutics. The book under review is not only a collection of surveys on apoptosis-targeted therapies but also a coherent account of the 'achievements of research made in ... a completely novel way of cancer therapy... using drugs that directly switch on the cell death machinery in tumors'.