MD Anderson Research Highlights for April 12, 2024
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson’s world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back. Recent developments at MD Anderson offer insights into a combination strategy to improve immunotherapy responses, promising trial results for patients with tumors harboring BRAF mutations, a maintenance strategy for patients with acute myeloid leukemia following chemotherapy, a strategy to overcome PARP inhibitor resistance in patients with BRCA1-deficient cancers, insights into Phase III trial subgroup analyses, a promising therapeutic target for homologous recombination-proficient epithelial ovarian cancers, and a new model to predict cancer risk for patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome and other hereditary cancers.