TP53 and cancer: So far, small-molecule inhibitors such as nutlin-3 and MI-219 were identified as able to efficiently block the interaction between MDM2 and p53, resulting in not only activation of p53, but apoptosis of cancer cells [41,42]; however, a limiting factor is that these small-molecule inhibitors exhibit their beneficial cytotoxic and apoptotic effects only in cancer cells bearing normal p53.