BCL2 and neoplasm: An evasion of cell death is described for several tumor types due to the disruption of the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis and/or an imbalance of the expression of pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins toward an increase in the amount of anti-apoptotic BCL-2 proteins (Adams and Cory 2007; Hanahan and Weinberg 2011; Sharma et al. 2019).