Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 14th, 2003
"Pharmacologic induction of cancer cell differentiation has potential in the treatment of breast cancer," scientists in the United States report.
"Doxorubicin, a widely used anthracycline antibiotic, was previously reported to induce differentiation of MCF-7 breast cancer cells," wrote J. Kim and colleagues, Children's Hospital, John F. Enders Research Laboratories.
"We demonstrate in this study that inhibition of MCF-7 breast cancer cell growth by low dose doxorubicin (0.01 microg/ml) was accompanied by an increase in cytokeratin 8/18 and milk fat...
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