Other scientists had found evidence that KRAS could
drive such tumors.
Not exact matches
Dr. José Baselga, chief medical officer and physician - in - chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, says it's organizations
such as the Kamen Brain
Tumor Foundation that will be instrumental in
driving the cure.
The HER2 pathway is mutated in many cancers, which
drives tumors, but inhibitors of this pathway,
such as lapatinib, have only limited success because cancer cells quickly adapt.
«The antibody -
driven innate response creates an environment
such that when the T cells come in, they can kill the
tumor.
Friedman notes that, even with the increasing number of drugs targeting specific molecular abnormalities that
drive tumor growth, most patients are only treated with one
such drug at a time.
City of Hope is a leader in image -
driven radiation planning, using advanced imaging technologies —
such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography scans — to determine
tumor size and location and «sculpt» radiation delivery to the cancerous areas.
Over the last 3 years, the partnership between the Salk Institute and Ipsen has delivered significant scientific advances in the cancer field
such as the development of biological models mimicking human cancerous processes as well as identification of specific cells
driving tumor growth.
Since heterogeneity in the
tumor microenvironment,
such as the presence of a neighboring blood vessel, may
drive genetic changes, he reasoned that it might also be reflected on the level of proteins.