Potential new therapy for hard-to-treat kidney cancers
A team of OHSU researchers, led by George Thomas, MD, surgical pathologist at the Knight Cancer Institute, have discovered a gene that makes some kidney cancers resistance to treatment. Drugs already approved by the FDA may be able to suppress this gene, according to Dr. Thomas. The results of this multidisciplinary study were published earlier this week in Science Translational Medicine.
Read the full OHSU news release.
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