Understanding Why Treatment Resistance Exists in Many Cancers
One of the biggest challenges that the medical community faces in fighting cancer is the treatment resistance phenomenon. Treatment resistance results in poor prognosis for patients due to the inability of available treatments to deliver meaningful beneficial changes in cancer progression. We discuss some of the mechanisms that have been studied as scientists search for a solution to treatment resistance in cancer patients. For starters, it has now become clear that treatment resistance can be broadly categorized into two distinct groups. The first is primary/innate/intrinsic resistance, in which from the get-go, a patient doesn’t respond to the available cancer treatments…
