Silencing a deadly conversation in breast cancer

Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

While it is already known that breast cancer cells create the conditions for their own survival by communicating their needs to the healthy cells that surround them, Australian researchers have identified a new way of turning off that cellular cross talk. They have shown that a molecule known as "hedgehog" sits at the center of the switchboard in breast cancer, transmitting biochemical signals between the cancer cells and healthy cells.

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