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Breast Cancer
Studies from University of Melbourne provide new data on breast cancer
June 12th, 2008
"A wide variety of animal models have been used to study human breast cancer. Murine, feline and canine mammary tumor cell lines have been studied for several decades and have been shown to have numerous aspects in common with human breast cancer," investigators in Melbourne, Australia report. "It is clear that new comparative approaches to study cancer etiology are likely to be productive. A continuous line of breast carcinoma cells (WalBC) was established from a primary breast cancer that spontaneously arose in a female tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). The primary tumor was 1.5 cm(3) and although large, did not appear to invade the stroma and lacked vimentin...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-06-12)
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