Novel detection method unmasks circulating breast cancer cells

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

SAN ANTONIO - Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The findings were presented today at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Link:  http://www.mdanderson.org

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