About artificially induced processes that would normally cause a cell to self-destruct
In some cases yes — when there is a mutation in apoptotic regulators such as Bcl2 family of proteins. In other cases it is difficult to identify and only identification is that those cells are growing rapidly; in other words failure to undergo apoptosis is not the cause but the effect of the cancerous transformation (as in case of p53, Ras, Myc mutations etc).