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Ireland Cancer Center researchers advance lung cancer treatment

Researchers at the Ireland Cancer Center of University Hospitals Case Medical Center have developed methods for treating lung cancer cells that have become resistant to new anti-cancer agents, such as Tarceva (erlotinib). Using a new second-generation of Tarceva-like medications, researchers can overcome the drug resistance, and such drugs are now in development including in clinical trials at the Ireland Cancer Center.

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