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Breast Cancer
New breast cancer findings from Johns Hopkins University published
October 30th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "Accumulating evidence indicates that breast cancer is caused by cancer stem cells and cure of breast cancer requires eradication of breast cancer stem cells. Previous studies with leukemia stem cells have shown that NF-kappa B pathway is important for leukemia stem cell survival." "In this study, by using MCF7 sphere cells as model of breast cancer stem-like cells, we evaluated the effect of NF-kappa B pathway specific inhibitors on human breast cancer MCF7 sphere cells. Three inhibitors including parthenolide (PTL), pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate (PDTC) and its analog diethyldithiocarbamate (DETC) were found to preferentially...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-10-30)
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