Re:Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
by yread on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:46PM
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Stuff like this gets used in cancer treatments, too, with combination therapies [1].
Even more interesting are drug holidays: cancer becomes resistant to drug A by evolving a new clone that uses some other metabolic pathway unaffected by the drug but is less efficient. Stop drug A, the first more efficient clone takes over again. Give drug A again and there is no resistance for a while.
Even more interesting are drug holidays: cancer becomes resistant to drug A by evolving a new clone that uses some other metabolic pathway unaffected by the drug but is less efficient. Stop drug A, the first more efficient clone takes over again. Give drug A again and there is no resistance for a while.
[1] https://www.oncode.nl/news/one-two-punchmethod-published-in-...