New research being conducted in San Antonio may soon bring hope to people battling different forms of cancer.
is to create a drug that is tolerable, manageable and effective for patients.
The center’s co-director of clinical research, Dr. Kyriakos Papadopoulos, is the principal investigator for thestudy. Papadopoulos said a huge challenge facing researchers has been finding drugs, or so called “targeted drugs,” which try and stop mutations and essentially treat the tumors. KRAS G12C is an oncogenic driver mutation in different types of cancers that historically researchers have not been able to find a way to stop rapid cell growth. Papadopoulos said it’s a protein once considered “undruggable.” But there is hope on the horizon. The study drug is a molecule targeting KRAS that one patient said he’s been responding well to.
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