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(Massachusetts General Hospital) A team of cancer researchers from several Boston academic medical centers has discovered a potential treatment for a group of tumors that have resisted previous targeted therapy approaches. In their Nature Medicine report, receiving early online release, the investigators report that combining two different kinase inhibitors — drugs that interfere with specific cell-growth pathways — led to significant tumor shrinkage in mice with lung cancer driven by mutations in the K-Ras gene.

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