Researchers discover why new melanoma drug stops working
Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 07:00
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has identified a previously unknown mechanism of resistance to the newly approved melanoma drug, vemurafenib, an oral targeted therapy used to treat advanced melanoma whose tumors contain a mutation in a gene called BRAF. The results of the study are published in the November 23rd advanced online edition of the journal Nature.