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Calculated resistance in cancer

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The future of cancer treatment lies in targeted therapies. That oft-repeated phrase of the last few years comes with a warning: watch out for drug resistance. A new mathematical model explores how combinations of drugs could keep resistance at bay.

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Figure 1: Mathematical modeling defines four pretreatment variables that affect the probability of drug resistance.

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