Medications

Locking leukemia's cellular escape hatch

Leukemia starts in cells that would normally develop into different types of blood cells. About 61,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed each year, and depending on the type of leukemia and the age of the patient, five-year ...

Medications

Rewiring the biology of leukemia cells to reverse drug resistance

Researchers from Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London have identified a way to reverse resistance to a group of cancer drugs, known as kinase inhibitors, in leukemia cells. By rewiring the inner workings ...

Oncology & Cancer

Cancer repair mechanism could be potential drug target

While cancer therapies targeting specific genes or disease pathways can extend lives, they can also lead to highly resistant tumors when small reservoirs of cancer cells survive treatment, grow, and spread.

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