“…It is the first of a novel class of anticancer drugs, known as proteasome inhibitors, to be approved for clinical use. Since its discovery, bortezomib has been used to treat a variety of human tumors, such as multiple myeloma (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8), lymphoma (9,10), non-small cell lung cancer (11,12), renal cancer (13,14), prostate cancer (15)(16)(17), pancreatic cancer (18), melanoma (19), breast cancer (20,21), and ovarian cancer (22). Bortezomib inhibits a key regulator of intracellular protein degradation, the 26S proteasome, which has the downstream effect of inducing apoptotic cancer cell death by means of multiple mechanisms.…”