{"id":2568,"date":"2020-03-18T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2020-03-18T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:13:15","slug":"a-new-approach-to-better-cancer-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/03\/18\/a-new-approach-to-better-cancer-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"A new approach to better cancer treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Research discovery shows potential new approach to cancer treatment<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1185\/garrett-michelle\">Garrett lab<\/a> together with scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have published <a href=\"https:\/\/cancerres.aacrjournals.org\/\">new work<\/a> showing how the effectiveness of a new class of cancer drugs (known as CHK1 inhibitors) can be increased by also inhibiting the B-family of DNA polymerases within the tumour cells. This two-pronged approach can potentially kill cancers that do not response to a single-drug treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The work also offers a new way of identifying those cancers most susceptible to CHK1 inhibitor treatment. The tumours with the lowest amounts of B-family DNA polymerases are least able to fight the killing effects of the drug and so respond best to treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/24627\/research-discovery-shows-potential-new-approach-to-cancer-treatment\">Read more about this exciting work at the University\u2019s News Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/03\/18\/a-new-approach-to-better-cancer-treatments\/&amp;t=A new approach to better cancer treatments' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=A new approach to better cancer treatments%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/03\/18\/a-new-approach-to-better-cancer-treatments\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/03\/18\/a-new-approach-to-better-cancer-treatments\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/03\/18\/a-new-approach-to-better-cancer-treatments\/&amp;title=A new approach to better cancer treatments' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/03\/18\/a-new-approach-to-better-cancer-treatments\/&amp;title=A new approach to better cancer treatments' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research discovery shows potential new approach to cancer treatment The Garrett lab together with scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have published new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2020\/03\/18\/a-new-approach-to-better-cancer-treatments\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5212,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24338,80390,124],"tags":[165780,80426,184248,80425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}