Researchers discover a key to aggressive breast cancer
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 13:56
in Health & Medicine
In trying to find out why HER2-positive breast cancer can be more aggressive than other forms of the disease, UC Davis Cancer Center researchers have surprisingly discovered that HER2 itself is the culprit. By shutting down its own regulator gene, HER2 creates a permissive environment for tumor growth.
