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.