A review of autophagy and gynecologic cancers
FU Qingyun
YIN Shande
WANG Aiming
Abstract：Autophagy is a common self-defended mechanism in all the eukaryotes, and it protects cells or organs from the noxious protein and the pathogen by degrading. Does the autophagy plays positive effect in the tissue all the time that similarly to the apoptosis, what happens between autophagy and gynecologic cancers ( cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer) , and the influence on the tumorigenesis and progression were unknown. This review illustrates the function of autophagy in the gynecologic cancers, and describes the latest development and therapy schedule about autophagy.
Keywords：MacroautophagyCervical cancerOvarian cancerEndometrial cancer
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 51-54 )