{"title":"DNA-repair-driven cell death compels us to rethink cancer therapies","authors":"Radoslaw Szmyd, Harriet E. Gee, Anthony J. Cesare","doi":"10.1038/s41580-025-00879-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cancer cell death following genotoxic therapy is often attributed to excessive or unrepaired genome damage. However, emerging evidence suggests that the repair of DNA double-strand breaks, rather than the damage itself, frequently drives lethality. The repair pathway that is engaged shapes not only cell fate, but also its immunological consequences. Emerging evidence suggests that, following genotoxic therapy, it is the repair of DNA double-strand breaks, rather than the damage itself, that frequently drives cancer cell death.","PeriodicalId":19051,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology","volume":"26 9","pages":"643-644"},"PeriodicalIF":90.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-025-00879-4","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CELL BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Cancer cell death following genotoxic therapy is often attributed to excessive or unrepaired genome damage. However, emerging evidence suggests that the repair of DNA double-strand breaks, rather than the damage itself, frequently drives lethality. The repair pathway that is engaged shapes not only cell fate, but also its immunological consequences. Emerging evidence suggests that, following genotoxic therapy, it is the repair of DNA double-strand breaks, rather than the damage itself, that frequently drives cancer cell death.
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