Drug resistance occurs when cancer fails to respond to a treatment. Sometimes, cancer cells are resistant to a particular treatment; in other cases, the drug may work at first, but the cells acquire changes during treatment that cause them to develop resistance. Identifying ways to overcome drug resistance is a major area of breast cancer research.
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