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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…

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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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