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Fast, hungry and unstable: finding the Achilles' heel of small-cell lung cancer.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Apr 2007
Hann Christine L, Rudin Charles M
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Over 95% of patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) die within five years of diagnosis. The standard of care and the dismal prognosis for this disease have not changed significantly over the past 25 years. Some of the characteristics of SCLC that have defined it as a particularly virulent form of cancer -- rapid proliferation, excessive metabolic and angiogenic dependence, apoptotic imbalance and genetic...
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