A team from French research institutes Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Institut Curie, and Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) has discovered a new class of molecules capable of inducing the death of cancer cells that are resistant to standard treatments. The study was published in Nature on May 7.

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“In certain cancers, such as pancreatic cancer or sarcomas, therapeutic options are relatively limited,” Raphaël Rodriguez, research director at CNRS and co-author of the study, told Medscape’s French edition .

Current cancer treatments mainly target primary tumor cells but often fail to eliminate cells with metastatic potential, which are responsible for 70% of cancer-related deaths.

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