Alternative DNA repair mechanism could provide better treatment for neuroblastoma in kids

Targeting DNA repair pathways could provide new treatment options for children with high-risk cancer, experts report. "We discovered that high-risk neuroblastoma cells preferentially use an efficient but erroneous DNA repair pathway that gives these cells survival advantage. Importantly, children with neuroblastoma tumors harboring these alternative repair factors have worse overall survival than children with tumors that have low expression," says an investigator.



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