P53 mutation hinders cancer treatment response

Friday, January 25, 2013 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have discovered the workings of the gene that has been hindering treatment response in cancer patients. This discovery was made after five years of studying the mutant form of the p53 gene, the major tumor suppressor in humans, which is generally found mutated in over 50 percent of all type of human cancers.

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