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what drug should be given with cisplatin and radiation to kill more cancer cells and keep them from growing back - I read this but I don't completely understand...how it applies to inflammatory breast cancer - triple negative. Does anyone have any insight they can shsre
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Drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemo
Compound that knocks out a DNA repair pathway enhances cisplatin treatment and helps prevent drug-resistance
- Date:
- June 6, 2019
- Source:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Summary:
- Researchers have discovered a potential drug compound that can block a mutagenic DNA repair pathway that helps cancer cells survive chemotherapy. When they treated mice with this compound along with cisplatin, a DNA-damaging drug, tumors shrank much more than those treated with cisplatin alone.
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