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This Is Our Cells Under Pressure: Decreased DNA Damage Repair in Response to Targeted Therapies Facilitates the Emergence of Drug-Resistant Clones.
Cancer cell - 13 Jan 2020
Gay Carl M, Parseghian Christine M, Byers Lauren Averett
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In a recent issue of Science, Russo et al. observe that colorectal cancer cells, when exposed to the pressure of EGFR- and BRAF-targeted therapies, transiently alter their transcriptional profiles to foster mutagenesis, thereby enhancing the stochastic development of acquired resistance mutations.
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