Aggressive breast cancer cells hijack natural stress protector to thrive

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

A member of a protein family known for protecting our cells also protects cancer cells in aggressive, metastatic breast cancer, scientists report. Induction of heat shock protein 70, or HSP70, – which protects cells from stress – appears to be a key difference between difficult-to-treat triple negative breast cancer and the more responsive estrogen-positive breast […]

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