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Tailored treatments: Promising designer drug provides new insight into cancer biology

13th Nov 2006, 19:11 GMT

Scientists are making progress toward unraveling the molecular mysteries that underlie cancer progression and treatment resistance. Two studies in the November 2006 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, provide mechanistic details that may explain why the small-molecule chemical ABT-737 is emerging as a unique and effective anticancer agent.

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