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By Anne Craig, Communications Officer

 

Queen’s University researcher Xiaolong Yang has discovered the key to understanding how breast cancer patients become resistant to chemotherapy. This discovery could lead to more successful breast cancer treatment.

 

“We have identified a protein that may be critical in causing the resistance of breast cancer cells to antitubulin drugs, a group of chemotherapeutic drugs commonly used for the treatment of breast and lung cancer,” explains Dr. Yang, an associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine.

 

 

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