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.