Cancer and the cell cycle

The purpose of this short review is to provide an overview of mammalian som atic cell cycle events and their controls. Cell cycle-related studies have been under way for only 5% of this millennium, yet since then nearly 20,000 references have appeared. This vast literature cannot be detailed here, no r can fundamental information obtained with Other organisms such as yeast a nd Xenopus, or topics such as the abbreviated cell cycle in early embryonic cells. (C) 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.