Key culprit identified in breast cancer metastasis

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

New research suggests that regulatory T cells, whose job is to help mediate the body's immune response, produce a protein that appears to hasten and intensify the spread of breast cancer to distant organs and, in doing so, dramatically increase the risk of death.

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