BAX and breast carcinoma: Because the overall cellular sensitivity of breast cancer cells to chemotherapy or radiotherapy is attributed to multiple intrinsic and extrinsic factors, such as p53 status, Bcl-2/Bax levels, expression of multiple drug resistance proteins, and hypoxic status, a caveat is that our data do not necessarily imply that one group of breast cancer cells showing increases in the level of p-Akt after chemotherapy or radiotherapy would absolutely be more chemoresistant or radioresistant than the another group of breast cancer cells without showing such a response.