Young women's breast cancers have more aggressive genes, worse prognosis
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 09:28
in Health & Medicine
Young women's breast cancers tend to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatment than the cancers that arise in older women, and researchers at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Centre and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy may have discovered part of the reason why: young women's breast cancers share unique genomic traits that the cancers in older women do not exhibit...
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