Research progress of autophagy for cancer treatment / 中华肝胆外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Autophagy is a vacuolar process of cytoplasmic degradation by lysosomes which ubiquitously occur in all eukaryotic cells.Heightened autophagy is a mechanism of resistance for cancer cells faced with metabolic and therapeutic stress,revealing opportunities for exploitation as a therapeutic target in cancer treament.This article reviews the mechanism of autophagy in cancer and its role for cancer treatment.