A protein called cFLIP makes tumor cells in breast cancer resistant to treatments

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 10:31 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have found that cFLIP –- an inhibitor of death ligand-induced apoptosis –- is not only essential in breast tumor cells resistance to TRAIL treatments (a death ligand with a potent therapeutic potential against cancer), but this protein is also key to the survival of such cancer cells.

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