DNA Repair, Auxiliary Skin Cancer Treatment

LEEDS - A new DNA discovery may help treat patients with skin cancer. The researchers found that the DNA repair genes in tumors, the failure to reduce cancer chemotherapy treatments.
Many anti-cancer drugs work by damaging the DNA of tumor cells. But the DNA of tumor cells can survive and grow again. For the first time that the genes involved in DNA as a marker of response to therapy for patients with skin cancer meant to repair. The results were published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
Leaders of the study, Professor Julia Newton-Bishop, from Cancer Research UK Centre, said the report (the so-called biomarkers), changes in the tumors themselves, predict how patients may respond to treatment.
With the knowledge of who attacked most of its genes can help doctors provide early treatment, survived, including the prediction of the likelihood of these patients. DNA repair system is an advantage in the medical world, but the latest research shows that this system also helps the cancer therapy.
The study included 472 patients with melanoma malgnant form the most dangerous skin cancer.