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Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality worldwide. It is an anomalous condition in which cell growth bypasses all the normal restraints on cell division and displays inappropriate cell proliferation. So, rather than responding normally to the cues that regulate the cell behaviour cancer cells grow in an uncontrolled manner invading neighbouring cells and organs and eventually spread throughout the body. The abnormal proliferation of cells is attributed to the dysregulation of the cell cycle that is one of the most frequent aberrations during tumour development. Unlike the normal cell cycle progression that occurs in an inordinately controlled and tightly regulated fashion, tumour cells involve disruption of this equilibrium and loss of checkpoint control that results in genomic instability, accumulation of DNA damage, uncontrolled cell proliferation and eventually tumorigenesis. Positive regulators are abnormally expressed or activated in cancer, while negative regulators are functionally suppressed. In light of this, comprehension of the molecular mechanisms of the deregulation of the cell cycle in cancer can offer significant understanding of how normal cells develop as well as how new cancer therapy methods are tumorigenic can be created. Cancer develops from aberrant positive regulator expression or activation as well as the effective suppression of adverse regulators.
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Mir, M.A., Sofi, S. (2023). Cell Cycle and Cancer. In: Mir, M. (eds) Therapeutic potential of Cell Cycle Kinases in Breast Cancer. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8911-7_4
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