title: Cancer and Apoptosis: Who Is Built to Last?
abstract: Effective cancer therapy requires that a cancer be more susceptible to a treatment than are the essential tissues in the body. A paper by Sarosiek et al. in this issue now shows that, unlike those of cancer cells, mitochondria in many tissues in adults are in an apoptosis-resistant state.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. Electronic address: douglas.green@stjude.org.
authors.forename: Douglas R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis; D006801:Humans; D008928:Mitochondria; D009369:Neoplasms