How Gliomas Outsmart Cancer-Killing Drugs
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 18:49
in Biology & Nature
University of California, San Diego researchers say they have shown one way deadly brain tumors called gliomas evade drugs aimed at blocking the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a cell signaling protein that is crucial for tumor growth. They also say that a particular EGFR mutation is important not only to initiate the tumor, but for its continued growth as well. The findings appear this week in PNAS. read more