In January 2001, held in Lausanne in Switzerland scientific conference entitled "Cancer and the cell cycle" - "Cancer & Cell Cycle," organized by ISREC (Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research). This article presents the most interesting, according to the author, reports from the conference. They concern not only the same cell cycle control, an important aspect of the control of the process of carcinogenesis, but also the latest developments in the fight against cancer.

The article is a report of two international scientific conferences devoted to cell cycle control: Novartis Foundation Symposium 237 Fri ? The Cell Cycle & Development, which was held in London in the UK in April 2000 and the conference. Jaques Monod Fri ? The Cell Division Cycle in Honour of Yoshio Masui, which took place in Roscoff in France in May