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Cancer drug resistance: the central role of the karyotype.
Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2000
Duesberg Peter, Li Ruhong, Sachs Rainer, Fabarius Alice, Upender Madhvi B, Hehlmann Ruediger
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Current genetic and epigenetic theories of cancer-specific drug resistance do not adequately explain: (i) the karyotypic changes that coincide with resistance, (ii) the high rates at which cancer cells acquire and enhance resistance compared to the rates of conventional mutation, (iii) the wide ranges of resistance such as multidrug resistance, (iv) the frequent occurrence of intrinsic drug resistance. We have...
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