Therapy-resistant cancers once again made sensitive to treatment

Far too often, cancer cells manage to become resistant to doctors' treatments. Researchers at KU Leuven have now discovered a new mechanism that makes cancer cells more resistant to therapy. Fortunately, they also came up with a way to by-pass this problem. Their research was published Communications. In recent years, cancer treatment has shifted from classic chemotherapy towards more targeted strategies. This newer approach uses specific medicines to target particular proteins that give cancer cells signals to start growing. A major limitation of this targeted therapy is the ease with which cancer cells are able to by-pass it.