New Cancer Treatment More Effective

Targeting a molecule in blood vessels can make cancer therapy significantly more effective, found scientists. According to researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, a molecule, called focal adhesion kinase (FAK), signals the body to repair itself after chemotherapy or radiotherapy, which kill cancer cells by damaging DNA and when they removed FAK from blood vessels that grew in melanoma or lung cancer models, both chemotherapy and radiation therapies were far more ...