Scientists identify a protein that may help breast cancer spread, beat cancer drugs

Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 07:00 in Health & Medicine

New research from UC Davis Cancer Centre 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 1 April issue of Cancer Research, is one of the first to characterise the role of Muc4 in the disease...

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