Abstract

Telomerase activation is an important characteristic of the most cancers that prevents telomere shortening and finally cell death in cancer cells. Various studies have been investigated telomerase activity and telomere length in cancer cells. Despite recent progress in understanding the role of telomerase activity in cell viability,numerous questions such as telomerase activity in relation to telomere length remain poorly understood. The present evaluates mathematical relationship between telomere length and telomerase activity in some cancers. In addition, the study compares three types of human cancersin terms of both the telomere length pattern and telomerase activity.