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Jul 19, 2018

Mechanism Behind Drug Resistance in Some Cancers Clarified

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Researchers have figured out details about how some specific type of cancers become drug-resistant.


Researchers at the Rockefeller University have clarified the mechanism by which certain types of breast cancer become immune to specific drugs designed to eliminate them. More specifically, they figured out how the loss of the protein 53BP1 due to BRCA1 mutation allows cancers to become insensitive to PARP inhibitors [1].

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