Estrogen-Induced Apoptosis in Breast Cancer Cells: Translation to Clinical Relevance

Abstract

A review. This article presents the translation to clin. relevance of estrogen-induced apoptosis in breast cancer cells. The demonstrations of the apoptotic actions of estrogen as a potential anticancer agent in postmenopausal breast cancer patients, now provides a rationale to further explore and decipher mechanisms of estrogen-induced apoptosis. There is a possibility that future studies on the mol. mechanism of estrogen-induced apoptosis will help to identify new more safer and specific agents for breast cancer therapy. [on SciFinder(R)]