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EBBA12

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

Science News

from research organizations

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.