Apoptotic Pathways and Their Regulation -- Mechanisms of Anticancer Drug Action -- Death Receptor Pathways As Targets for Anticancer Therapy -- Caspases; Modulators of Apoptosis and Cytokine Maturation — Targets for Novel Therapies -- The Intrinsic (Mitochondrial) Death Pathway and New Cancer Therapeutics: Bcl-2 Family in Focus -- Survivin, other IAPs, Smac/Diablo, and Omi/Htra2 — Modulation of the Advancing Apoptotic Process -- The Life Cycle of P53: A Key Target in Drug Development -- Growth Factors, Receptors, and Kinases: Their Exploration to Target Cancer -- Targets for Apoptotic Intervention in Rheumatoid Arthritis -- Therapeutic Inhibition of Apoptosis Caused by Stroke -- Monoclonal and Bispecific Antibodies as Novel Therapeutics -- Targeting the Proteasome in Cancer Therapy -- D-RNAi-Based Therapeutics -- Nuclear Transcription Factor-?B: A Drug Target for all Seasons -- Monitoring of Programmed cell Death in Vivo and in Vitro,—New and Old Methods of Cancer Therapy Assessment -- Current Strategies in Tumor-Targeting -- Strategies of Protection of Normal Cells During Chemo- and Radio-Therapy Based on Modulation of Cell Cycle and Apoptotic Pathways.