New hope for the cure: Drug combination targets aggressive triple-negative breast cancer

Friday, April 1, 2011 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- With currently available early-detection methods for breast cancer, many people can be treated successfully. But for the 20 percent of patients with so-called triple-negative breast cancer, the outcome is bleak. Now, however, researchers from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Baylor College of Medicine have identified a critical molecular component to the disease, one that suggests potential therapies involving combinations of FDA-approved, readily available drugs.

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