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University of California - Davis - Health System
UC Davis researchers identify a protein that may help breast cancer spread, beat cancer drugs
April 16th, 2009
New research from UC Davis Cancer Center shows that a protein called Muc4 may be the essential ingredient that allows breast cancer to spread to other organs and resist therapeutic treatment. The study, which appears in the April 1 issue of Cancer Research, is one of the first to characterize the role of Muc4 in the disease. Kermit Carraway, senior author of the study, knew that Muc4 was not always expressed in primary breast cancer tumors, yet it could be present in lymph node metastases. He suspected that it may have a specialized function in the process of metastasis. "Breast cancer deaths are caused by metastasis, not by the primary tumor,"...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-04-16)
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