Genetic Key To Breast Cancer's Ability To Survive And Spread Identified

Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 17:14 in Health & Medicine

New research sheds light on a genetic function that gives breast cancer cells the ability to survive and spread to the bone years after treatment has been administered. The findings support the study of therapies that target this survival capacity and force the death of latent breast cancer cells before they get a chance to metastasize.

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