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Study discovers promising therapeutic agent to inhibit melanoma progression – News-Medical.Net
There have been great advances in treating melanoma over the past five years, however, even with these treatments many patients quickly develop drug resistance…

There have been great advances in treating melanoma over the past five years, however, even with these treatments many patients quickly develop drug resistance and die from their disease. A new study from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has discovered that a drug (YK-4-279) that was previously created to target one specific type of protein has much broader use against a family of proteins that act to promote melanoma.
We find that this drug inhibited melanoma from becoming more aggressive…
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