Researchers discover drug resistance mechanisms in most common form of melanoma
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 13:32
in Biology & Nature
Researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that melanoma patients whose cancers are caused by mutation of the BRAF gene become resistant to a promising targeted treatment through another genetic mutation or the overexpression of a cell surface protein, both driving survival of the cancer and accounting for relapse.