AACR, Author Interviews, Cancer Research, Genetic Research, Yale / 27.02.2020
Cancers That Survive Chemotherapy Acquire Resistance Genes in Different Ways
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Lajos Pusztai, M.D, D.Phil.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Breast Cancer Translational Research
Co-Director, Yale Cancer Center Genetics and Genomics Program
Yale Cancer Center
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT 05620
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: We analyzed breast cancer tissues obtained before any therapy and the same cancers after 20 weeks of chemotherapy. This setting is ideal to find out what genomic changes have occurred in cancers that survived therapy. Due to the paucity of such specimens few other studies exist in this space.
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