Young Women's Breast Cancers Have More Aggressive Genes, Worse Prognosis
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 21:28
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 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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