Researchers find important 'target' playing role in tobacco-related lung cancers
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 13:01
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have discovered that the immune response regulator IKBKE (serine/threonine kinase) plays two roles in tobacco-related non-small cell lung cancers. Tobacco carcinogens induce IKBKE and, in turn, IKBKE induces chemotherapy resistance.