Mayo Clinic researchers find lung cancer oncogene holds key to t...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Mon, 09/07/2009 - 22:00

(Mayo Clinic) Scientists at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found that the lung cancer oncogene PKCiota is necessary for the proliferation of lung cancer stem cells.

These stem cells are rare and powerful master cells that manufacture the other cells that make up lung tumors and are resistant to chemotherapy treatment.

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