“…Autophagy is induced by different forms of cancer therapy, including conventional chemotherapeutic drugs, novel targeted cancer therapeutics and ionizing radiation, in various types of solid and hematological malignancies (Table 2) (Han et al, 2007(Han et al, , 2008Kim et al, 2007Kim et al, , 2008bKim et al, , 2009aMaiuri et al, 2007b;Kamitsuji et al, 2008;Meschini et al, 2008;Qadir et al, 2008;Turcotte et al, 2008;Fu et al, 2009;Lorin et al, 2009;Tormo et al, 2009;Fan et al, 2010;Gupta et al, 2010;Huang and Sinicrope, 2010;Li and Fan, 2010;Voss et al, 2010;Yacoub et al, 2010;Wu et al, 2010c;Lian et al, 2011;O'Donovan et al, 2011). In some circumstances, autophagy mediates the cytotoxic or cytostatic effect of anticancer agents, in which blockade of autophagy abolishes the therapeutic actions.…”