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Pregnancy hormone hCG protects against breast cancer even in short-term treatments

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

In an animal model of breast cancer, Fox Chase Cancer Centre researcher shows how smaller doses of hCG could offer some of the same benefits of longer doses...

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