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Cancer cells pose an uncanny ability to make new cells and dodge drugs, somewhat like would-be robbers hacking the bank s alarm code, one doctor explains. But researchers at Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center have figured out how cancer cells rewire themselves and, in turn, how to possibly overcome drug resistance.
This drug resistance may explain why some acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other cancer patients suffer fatal relapses despite many improvements in leukemia outcomes over the years, according to a Children s news release. Overcoming resistance to therapy remains a holy grail of leukemia treatment, says Yi Zheng, Ph.D., director, experimental hematology and cancer biology at Cincinnati Children s. Zheng and his colleagues have now discovered a way to boost the effectiveness of mTOR inhibitors, which prohibit unwanted cell proliferation.
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