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Research yields new agent for some drug-resistant, non-small cell lung cancers
- December 23, 2009

Researchers have halted non-small cell lung tumors resistant to Iressa and Tarceva with a newly constructed compound that may also have fewer side effects.

Tags: DrugResistance, LungCancer

Regorafenib was found to reduce the risk of disease progression or death by more than 70 percent in patients whose tumors had become resistant to Gleevec and Sutent.

Tags: DrugResistance, Sarcoma, TargetedTherapy

New drug strategy attacks resistant leukemia and lymphoma
- May 29, 2012

Researchers at Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center have created a peptide that overcomes drug resistance and reactivates programmed cell death in recurrent blood cancers.

Tags: chemotherapy, DrugResistance, Leukemia, Lymphoma

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