Potential new target for treating triple negative breast cancer identified
Sunday, November 28, 2010 - 23:31
in Health & Medicine
Scientists believe they may have found a new target for treating triple negative breast cancer -- one of the more difficult breast cancers to treat successfully and for which there is no targeted therapy at present. New research shows that TNBC cells respond to compounds that disrupt the signaling processes of another receptor, EGFR, high levels of which are expressed in TNBC.