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.

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