Cancer spies find drug-beating covert cells
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By spying on cancer cells, Novartis researchers have a made a preliminary discovery that could potentially shape how targeted therapies are combined to treat patients. Currently doctors use the genomic profile of a patient’s tumor to select drugs that will hit the right target and shrink the cancer. Targeted therapy has prolonged many lives, but most cancers come back, and these drug-resistant tumors are very difficult to treat.
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