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Telomeres and cancer—a love/hate relationship. Telomere dysfunction precipitates the acquisition of other hallmarks of cancer by increasing the rate of chromosomal instability. However, it also poses a threat of induction of cell death during mitosis, due to massive genomic instability—named mitotic catastrophe.
