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Mining the genome for combination therapies

Nature Medicine volume 9, pages 510–511 (2003)Cite this article

The evaluation of drug combinations for cancer treatment has progressed slowly through methodical clinical research. A new study examining gene expression profiles could signal a shift in the approach to combination therapy.

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Figure 1: Models for combination therapy.

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  2. Whitehead Institute, MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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