Chemotherapy-resistance

An update on the latest oncology developments by DDW Digital Content Editor Diana Spencer The last month has seen huge strides forward in our understanding of cancers, particularly in how they develop resistance to therapies and how we can ‘outsmart’ them using gene editing or different therapeutic pathways, but also how we can better target […]

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has found a way to overcome chemotherapy resistance in colorectal cancer.  The team successfully used a combination of tyrosine kinase inhibitors, opening up new avenues for developing therapies that are more targeted than chemotherapy.  Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers. Over time, chemotherapy induces […]

Not only is October Breast Cancer Awareness Month but October 21 is Wear it Pink 2022, Breast Cancer Now’s annual fundraising day. While advances in treatment over the last few years have resulted in good overall survival rates for patients with non-metastatic disease (90% five-year survival rate in the US1), outcomes are still poor in […]