Researchers Find Important 'Target' Playing Role in Tobacco-Related Lung Cancers
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 13:31
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center 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.