Study finds new points of attack on breast cancers not fueled by estrogen
Monday, July 11, 2011 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Although it sounds like a case of gender confusion on a molecular scale, the male hormone androgen spurs the growth of some breast tumors in women. In a new study, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute provide the first details of the cancer cell machinery that carries out the hormone's relentless growth orders.