Estrogen Pills Can Benefit Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer, Study Finds

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 13:42 in Health & Medicine

Estrogen-receptor positive metastatic breast cancer often develops resistance to conventional therapies that severely lower a woman's estrogen level. A group of researchers headed by a breast cancer specialist has found that in one-third of these cases, such tumors will respond, paradoxically, to therapy that raises a woman's estrogen level.

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