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Radiotherapy with AKT inhibitors offers cancer hope

The use of AKT inhibitors in combination with radiotherapy could provide a breakthrough in the fight against cancer, a new report published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has claimed.

The use of AKT inhibitors in combination with radiotherapy could provide a breakthrough in the fight against cancer, a new report published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has claimed. The breakthrough provides an insight into the role oxygen starvation of cells plays in the development and growth of cancer. In the case of cancer cells, tumours often grow so quickly that some of the cells do not have access to the body’s blood supply, causing them to become oxygen-starved. This rapid growth usually sends signals to the cells to die, but in cancers with faults in a gene called

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