A new unexpected key player in melanoma development identified

(VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)) In The Journal of Clinical Investigation researchers from VIB, KU Leuven (Belgium) together with colleagues from INSERM (France) now report the important role for FES in the initiation and progression of melanoma, a malignant type of skin cancer, that is notoriously quick to metastasize and that responds poorly to existing cancer treatments. Unexpectedly the expression of FES, which encodes a kind of protein better known for their ability to promote cancer development-, is lost in a large fraction of human melanoma.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news