61: Drug Resistant Thyroid Cancer, with Dr. Carmelo Nucera from Harvard Medical School

61: Drug Resistant Thyroid Cancer, with Dr. Carmelo Nucera from Harvard Medical School

Author: Philip James interviews top thyroid experts about surgery, nutrition, endoc October 19, 2017 Duration: 39:30

Carmelo Nucera, M.D., Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in the Division of Cancer Biology and Angiogenesis (Department of Pathology), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Nucera received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Experimental Endocrinology and Metabolism from Italy.
Dr. Nucera is highly driven by an intense desire to make important contributions that will directly benefit patients. Dr. Nucera is strongly committed to make discovery aimed to immediately cure patients that are suffering with aggressive tumors and rare/orphan cancer disease.
Dr. Nucera has a clinical background and intensely served patients with fatal human diseases.

In this episode, Dr. Nucera discusses a combination drug therapy using vemurafenib and palbociclib represents a novel therapeutic strategy to treat papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). 

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Carmelo Nucera

Researchers identify novel therapeutic strategy for drug-resistant thyroid cancers

Publication: Thyroid Cancer and resistance to BRAFV600E inhibitors

American Thyroid Association

 


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