New Research Strategy For Understanding Drug Resistance In Leukemia
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 03:21
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have developed a new approach to identify specific genes that influence how cancer cells respond to drugs and how they become resistant. This strategy, which involves producing diverse genetic mutations that result in leukemia and associating specific mutations with treatment outcomes, will enable researchers to better understand how drug resistance occurs in leukemia and other cancers, and has important long-term implications for the development of more effective therapies.