Breast Cancer

Manchester researchers announce new methods of beating breast cancer

Published in Biotech Business Week, October 15th, 2007

University of Manchester researchers revealed new ways of controlling and treating breast cancer at the National Cancer Research Institute conference in Birmingham.

Dr Robert Clarke and his team at the University's Cancer Studies research group have been investigating human breast cancers for the presence of stem cells - cells that generate new tumours and can cause the cancer to recur - in a series of studies funded by the charity Breast Cancer Campaign.

One third of women who are successfully treated for breast cancer find that the disease recurs some years later because some of these cancer cells survive the treatment and begin to grow...

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