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Breast Cancer
Molecular interaction found to trigger particularly aggressive form of disease
February 9th, 2006
Researchers have identified a molecular interaction that triggers a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer and suggest that attacking this target with selective drugs might improve treatment. In the January 2006 issue of Cancer Cell, a team led by Qunyan Yu, MD, and Piotr Sicinski, MD, PhD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, report that the interaction of a certain mutated oncogene and the newly described growth control flaw is seen in about 10% of breast cancers - and the deadliest ones (Requirement for CDK4 kinase function in breast cancer. Cancer Cell, January 2006;9(1):23-32). The cancer results from a cascade of molecular events....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-02-09)
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