GADD45 Deregulation in Cancer: Frequently Methylated Tumor Suppressors and Potential Therapeutic Targets

In this issue of Clinical Cancer Research , Ying et al. ([1][1]) have investigated the hypothesis that GADD45γ , a member of the GADD45 family originally identified as a growth arrest– and DNA damage–inducible gene, could serve as a functional tumor suppressor gene, and moreover, as a

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