Topics and Expertise: PI3K signaling

Stopping cancer in its tracks

Thu Jul 19, 2018
Cancerous breast tissue, with normal connective tissue (pink) and cancer cells (blue).
Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute

Cancerous breast tissue, with normal connective tissue (pink) and cancer cells (blue).

Cancer, fundamentally, is a problem of too much growth. For decades, health care providers have tried and failed to slow tumor growth using drugs that interfere with a particular signaling pathway, called PI3K, which is known to operate in proliferating cancer cells.