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Overcoming nucleoside analog chemoresistance of pancreatic cancer: a therapeutic challenge.
Cancer letters - 28 Jul 2012
Hung Sau Wai, Mody Hardik R, Govindarajan Rajgopal
Abstract excerpt
Clinical refractoriness to nucleoside analogs (e.g., gemcitabine, capecitabine) is a major scientific problem and is one of the main reasons underlying the extremely poor prognostic state of pancreatic cancer. The drugs' effects are suboptimal partly due to cellular mechanisms limiting their transport, activation, and overall efficacy. Nonetheless, novel therapeutic approaches are presently under study to...
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