New drugs hope for those with 'resistant' cancers - media - Prof Hani Gabra/UK

"But now scientists at the charity Ovarian Cancer Action have discovered the reason why their cancers apparently develop this resistance. Rather than the cancers developing immunity, they found that minute traces of cancers that were always resistant to platinum therapy were there from the beginning. This discovery has helped them identify four or five different molecular "targets" that could be the focus of new drugs, said Prof Hani Gabra, director of the charity's research centre. He said: "These cancers look like they are platinum-resistant, but in fact they were there from the outset and they were never touched by the drugs." .....cont'd