Key 'switch' found for popular breast cancer drug
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 13:21
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have pinpointed the molecular on-off switch that the powerful drug tamoxifen uses to attack breast cancer and which prevents it from working in some women....
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