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Scientists Discover How Tumors Play Dead to Dodge Chemotherapy
Researchers found IAPs let chemotherapy-damaged tumors survive in a senescent state, and compounds that neutralize them selectively killed those cells.
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Scientists discover how tumors play dead to dodge chemotherapy
Cancer cells can evade the deadly effects of chemotherapy by entering a “zombie-like state," say scientists.
·Chariton, United States
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How cancers evade chemotherapy by entering a 'zombie-like state'
Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made a breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell-killing effects of chemotherapy and enter a "zombie-like state," called premature senescence, that can attract the wound-healing properties of the immune system.
·Douglas, United Kingdom
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Tumor cells can become senescent to resist chemotherapy, which strengthens the tumor, but there are medications that eliminate these resistant cells.
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