Application of Apoptosis to Cancer Treatment. By M Sluyser (Ed.). Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands: 2005. 378 pp. ISBN:1-4020-3303-6. $139, hardcover

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’.

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