Researchers Discover Molecule That Drives Aggressive Breast Cancer
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Recent studies by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University's Kimmel Cancer Center have shown a gene known to coordinate initial development of the eye (EYA1) is a powerful breast tumor promoter in mice. The gene EYA1 was also shown to be overexpressed in a genetic breast cancer subtype called luminal B.