Crucial role for repair protein in cancer therapy
22 April 2015
A study involving researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics has uncovered why some tumours become resistant to an important class of anti-cancer drugs. Women with breast cancer caused by BRCA1 gene mutations can be treated with PARP inhibitors. but some tumours appear to become resistant to this treatment. Dr Ross Chapman collaborated with a research team at the Netherlands Cancer Institute on a recent Nature paper which uncovered the crucial role a protein called Rev7 played in resistance to PARP inhibitors.