resistance
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Sulzberger says their resistance to pay for it amounts to a repackaging of “stolen goods.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
While chemotherapy can slow the progression of the disease, its effectiveness is often limited by the ability of pancreatic cancer cells to develop resistance against these drugs.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
The setup emerged after the stock failed to break above a bullish ascending triangle in late February, encountering resistance near the $125 level on three separate occasions.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
“Despite recent advances in immunotherapy and targeted therapy, most patients with non-small-cell lung cancer continue to have disease progression and develop resistance to current treatments,” the authors of a commentary wrote in The Lancet.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
Farmer also reasoned these patients couldn’t have caught the same highly resistant strain, because each one’s TB had a slightly different pattern of resistance.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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