Study provides molecular rationale for combining targeted agents to treat breast cancer

Friday, January 14, 2011 - 10:40 in Health & Medicine

A new study by Ohio State University cancer researchers provides a rational for treating breast cancer by combining two kinds of targeted agents, one that inhibits an overactive, cancer-causing pathway in cancer cells and one that reverses changes that silence genes that normally prevent cancer. Both types of agents are currently available and being evaluated individually in clinical trials, the researchers note...

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