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Kristel Tjandra

'I've never seen anything like this': Scientists hijack cancer genes to turn tumors against themselves

Illustration shows an x-ray view into a human torso, showing a lung with a tumor in it.

Cancer can sometimes thwart drugs designed to treat it — but now, scientists have developed a way to turn tumor cells against their neighbors, forcing the cancer to cooperate with treatment. 

A cancer treatment's success hinges on its capacity to damage cancer cells enough to kill them or stop them from growing. However, some cancer cells can change their molecular makeup to either mitigate or cancel out the therapy's effect. 

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