Discovery halts breast cancer stem cells

Published on Nov 24th, 2010 under All.By admin

[Recent Epithelial Cancer News]

Breast cancer stem cells (CSCs), the aggressive cells thought to be resistant to current anti-cancer therapies and which promote metastasis, are stimulated by estrogen via a pathway that mirrors normal stem cell development. Disrupting the pathway, researchers were able to halt the expansion of breast CSCs, a finding that suggests a new drug therapy target. The study, done in mice, is published …

Discovery halts breast cancer stem cells
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