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Changes in multiple different genes drive world's most deadly forms of lung cancer
19:00 EST 14 Nov 2017 | News-Medical.net
A new UC San Francisco–led study challenges the dogma in oncology that most cancers are caused by one dominant "driver" mutation that can be treated in isolation with a single targeted drug. Instead, the new research finds one of the world's most deadly forms of lung cancer is driven by changes in multiple different genes, which appear to work together to drive cancer progression and to allow tumors to evade targeted therapy.
Original Article: Changes in multiple different genes drive world's most deadly forms of lung cancer
