Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Resistance to BRAF Drugs In Melanoma may be Overcome by Blocking Autophagy With Malaria Drug

Melanoma patients with BRAF mutation usually have a positive response to treatment with BRAF inhibitors, but nearly all of those patients develop resistance to the drugs and experience disease progression. Now, a new preclinical study published online ahead of print in the ia/i from Penn Medicine researchers found that in many cases the root of the resistance may lie in a never-before-seen autophagy mechanism induced by the BRAF inhibitors vermurafenib and ...

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