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70-Year-Old Chemotherapy Drug Reveals a Hidden Cancer Survival Mechanism

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70-Year-Old Chemotherapy Drug Reveals a Hidden Cancer Survival Mechanism
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A 70-year-old leukemia drug has uncovered a hidden side of how cancer cells survive chemotherapy. For more than 70 years, 6-thioguanine (6-TG) has been used to treat leukemia, yet scientists are still uncovering what determines whether cancer cells are killed by the drug or survive it. New research suggests that part of the answer lies [...]

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