Gene signature may predict patient response to therapy for gastrointestinal tumours
Friday, May 15, 2009 - 06:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Centre uncovered a genetic pattern that may help predict how gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) patients respond to the targeted therapy imatinib mesylate (Gleevec). Moreover, their findings point to genes that could be suppressed in order to make these tumours respond more readily to imatinib...