Apoptosis in Cancer Pathogenesis and Anti-cancer Therapy

1. Molecular Cell Biology of Apoptosis and Necroptosis in Cancer
Christopher P. Dillon, Douglas R. Green

2. Clearance of Dying Cells by Phagocytes: Mechanisms and Implications for Disease Pathogenesis
Aaron M. Fond, Kodi S. Ravichandran

3. Microenvironmental Effects of Cell Death in Malignant Disease
Christopher D. Gregory, Catriona A. Ford, Jorine J. L. P. Voss

4. Apoptotic Caspases in Promoting Cancer: Implications from Their Roles in Development and Tissue Homeostasis
Catherine Dabrowska, Mingli Li, Yun Fan

5. Axl and Mer Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: Distinct and Nonoverlapping Roles in Inflammation and Cancer?
Ian Dransfield, Sarah Farnworth

6. Immunogenic Apoptotic Cell Death and Anticancer Immunity
Peter Vandenabeele, Katrien Vandecasteele, Claus Bachert, Olga Krysko, Dmitri V. Krysko

7. Cancer Cell Death-Inducing Radiotherapy: Impact on Local Tumour Control, Tumour Cell Proliferation and Induction of Systemic Anti-tumour Immunity
Benjamin Frey, Anja Derer, Heike Scheithauer, Roland Wunderlich, Rainer Fietkau, Udo S. Gaipl

8. Novel Approaches to Apoptosis-Inducing Therapies
Mike-Andrew Westhoff, Nicolas Marschall, Klaus-Michael Debatin

9. Killing Is Not Enough: How Apoptosis Hijacks Tumor-Associated Macrophages to Promote Cancer Progression
Andreas Weigert, Javier Mora, Divya Sekar, Shahzad Syed, Bernhard Brüne

Keywords: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Apoptosis, Molecular Medicine