Chemotherapy-induced senescence, an adaptive mechanism driving resistance and tumor heterogeneity

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Senescence is activated in response to chemotherapy to prevent the propagation of cancer cells. In transformed cells, recent studies have shown that this response is not always definitive and that persistent populations can use senescence as an adaptive pathway to restart proliferation and become more aggressive. Here we discuss the results showing that an incomplete and heterogeneous senescence response plays a...

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