Melanoma tumors that have spread to the brain are equipped to thwart immunotherapies and targeted therapies that succeed against tumors growing in other sites. Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center report in Cancer Discovery that the heavy reliance of these tumors on a specific metabolic pathway presents a potentially new therapeutic against these lethal tumors.
In his new book, “No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson,” Gardiner Harris, who was previously the public health and pharmaceutical business reporter for The New York Times, talks about the history of the overuse of red blood cell growth factors in oncology.
