Abstract:Lung cancer is the most common type of cancer all over the world and first rank in cancer related deaths. Autophagy was first defined in yeast at the 1970's, programmed cell death mechanism. In recent years, many studies have been made regarding the role of the autophagy in carsinogenesis. In these studies, autophagy both initiate the carcinogenesis and providing survival of cancer cells as well as launching their apoptosis, as opposed to this two role as a mechanism to destroy cancer cells in the direction of… Show more
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