resistance

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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

“Shoppers want to save on gas, but the path of least resistance for most is a more efficient version of what they already know,” the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 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

Two years earlier, King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” published in newspapers around the world, had been greeted as an important defense of nonviolent resistance to unjust laws.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman