Duke Researchers Describe How Breast Cancer Cells Acquire Drug Resistance

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

A seven-year quest to understand how breast cancer cells resist treatment with the targeted therapy lapatinib has revealed a previously unknown molecular network that regulates cell death. The discovery provides new avenues to overcome drug resistance, according to researchers at Duke Cancer Institute.

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