Wound Healing Response Promotes Breast Cancer Metastasis In Postpartum Mice

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 18:40 in Health & Medicine

Within the first 5 years after the birth of a child, women are considered at an increased risk of developing metastatic breast cancer. Why that happens has been considered a puzzle but the fact remains that women diagnosed with postpartum breast cancer have a decreased disease free survival time compared to women that have never given birth. The aggressive tendency of postpartum breast cancer suggests that the post-birth breast environment promotes tumor metastasis. A new study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggests that dying tumor cells in postpartum breast tissue promote metastatic disease. read more

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