How breast cancer cells evade therapeutic attacks

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 18:28 in Health & Medicine

Tumour cells depend upon estrogens to survive and proliferate in about 70% of all breast cancer cases. The most frequently used treatment to fight this variety of tumours relies on anti-estrogens such as tamoxifen. However, resistance to this type of therapy develops in more than 30% of the patients.

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