Treatment resistance in some cancer cells may be reversible
Friday, April 2, 2010 - 08:07
in Health & Medicine
The ability of cancer cells to resist treatment with either targeted drug therapies or traditional chemotherapy may, in some cases, result from a transient state of reversible drug 'tolerance.' In a paper that will appear in the journal Cell and is receiving early online release, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Centre report finding small populations of drug-tolerant cells from several different types of tumours and identifying aspects of the underlying mechanism...