Breakthrough: Targeted Therapy For Stomach Cancer Now Possible?

Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

Gastric cancer - stomach cancer - does not respond well to existing treatments and is currently the third leading cause of cancer death in the world, after lung and liver cancer. Researchers have discovered that certain drugs, currently used to treat breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancers, could also be used to treat certain gastric cancers with a particular pattern of mutations, their genomic molecular fingerprint.  read more

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