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Chromosome segregation errors: a double-edged sword - TI Pharma

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Abstract<br />

Most of the current drugs used to treat cancer can be classified as anti-proliferative drugs. These drugs<br />

perturb the proliferative cycle of tumor cells at diverse stages of the cell cycle. Examples of such drugs<br />

are DNA-damaging agents and inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases that arrest cell cycle progression<br />

at different stages of interphase. Another class of anti-proliferative drugs is the so-called anti-mitotic<br />

drugs, which selectively perturb progression through mitosis. Mitosis is the shortest and final stage<br />

in the cell cycle and has evolved to accurately divide the duplicated genome over the two daughter<br />

cells. This review deals with the different strategies that are currently considered to perturb mitotic<br />

progression in the treatment of cancer.<br />

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