A team of University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers has found the mechanism that grants prostate cancer resistance to enzalutamide, a frequently used drug. The article is published in Science Signaling.
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Even cells experience peer pressure. Scientists have long studied the ins and outs of cancer cells to learn more about the disease, but they're increasingly finding that noncancerous cells near the cancer cells exert a powerful ...
Mar 11, 2025
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A recent study uncovers how drug-resistant cancer cells induce changes in the tumor microenvironment. This phenomenon promotes cancer recurrence and explains why initially effective targeted therapies can lose their efficacy ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer, with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study led by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) ...
Jan 6, 2025
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Antimicrobial peptides derived from a crab and a spider may provide the pathway to overcoming drug resistance in advanced melanoma. QUT researchers based at Brisbane's Translational Research Institute (TRI) have modified ...
Dec 16, 2024
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A new method can improve treatment for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia by predicting which medication will be most effective. The method also works for other forms of cancer where resistance may develop. A step is ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Just as crop-devouring insects evolve to resist pesticides, cancer cells can increase their lethality by developing resistance to treatment. In fact, most deaths from cancer are caused by the evolution of therapeutic resistance.
Nov 22, 2024
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An international team of researchers have developed a promising new drug that could help combat the spread of treatment-resistant malaria.
Nov 4, 2024
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About 1,200 Germans are diagnosed with gastrointestinal stromal tumors every year—a rare type of cancer in which the tumors develop in the walls of the digestive organs and quickly develop resistance to common precision drugs.
Oct 15, 2024
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A research team led by Professor Ying Wai Chan from the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has made a significant breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells develop resistance to a class ...
Jul 31, 2024
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