UCLA researchers discover drug resistance mechanisms in most common form of melanoma

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 12:10 in Biology & Nature

Researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre have found that melanoma patients whose cancers are caused by mutation of the BRAF gene become resistant to a promising targeted treatment through another genetic mutation or the overexpression of a cell surface protein, both driving survival of the cancer and accounting for relapse...

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