New therapeutic targets for small cell lung cancer identified

Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 15:21 in Health & Medicine

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein termed ASCL1 that is essential to the development of small cell lung cancer and that, when deleted in the lungs of mice, prevents the cancer from forming. The new findings identify ASCL1 as an important therapeutic target for small cell lung cancer, for which there have been […]

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