Taken together with the findings by Das et al. (see above) showing that BAG3 overexpression is correlated with cytoprotective autophagy, ultimately mediating resistance to cell death in selected chemoresistant breast cancer cells [33], there is good collective evidence that BAG3 plays a role in apoptosis resistance of breast cancer cells, very likely via both its anti-apoptotic and pro-autophagic activity. Here, BAG3 is linked to breast carcinoma.