Breast Milk Protein Linked to Poorer Breast Cancer Survival in Younger Women
Monday, May 31, 2010 - 15:50
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that sheds light on why breast cancer may be deadlier for premenopausal women, a Yale School of Medicine team has linked breast cancer survival with levels of a transport protein that regulates milk production in mammary glands. The paper is published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.