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Protecting the normal in order to better kill the cancer.
Cancer medicine - 1 Sept 2015
Liu Bingya, Ezeogu Lewis, Zellmer Lucas, Yu Baofa, Xu Ningzhi, Joshua Liao Dezhong
Abstract excerpt
Chemotherapy is the only option for oncologists when a cancer has widely spread to different body sites. However, almost all currently available chemotherapeutic drugs will eventually encounter resistance after their initial positive effect, mainly because cancer cells develop genetic alterations, collectively coined herein as mutations, to adapt to the therapy. Some patients may still respond to a second chemo...
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