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Survival pathways meet their end

Nature volume 428, pages 267–269 (2004)Cite this article

Conventional chemotherapeutic approaches to treating tumours can be hit-and-miss. One way to ensure successful treatment may be to go for the jugular of cancer-cell survival signalling as well.

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Figure 1: The complexity of survival through Akt signalling.

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