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Our research into drug resistance

Cancer is a complex disease both to understand and to treat. One of the greatest challenges facing scientists and doctors is the problem of ‘drug resistance’.

This is where a person's cancer does not respond to a treatment that works well for others with the same disease. In some cases, people develop resistance during the course of their treatment - the drugs that they were initially prescribed stop working.

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists are leading the world in understanding drug resistance and identifying ways to overcome this hurdle. Importantly, this information could also allow doctors in the future to predict who will and who won’t respond well to particular drugs.

Below are some of the highlights of our drug resistance research portfolio

Updated: 17 September 2009

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