Gene profile may help identify risk for hormone-sensitive, hormone-insensitive breast cancer

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 21:00 in Health & Medicine

The overexpression or underexpression of a newly identified set of genes related to lipid metabolism may help physicians identify whether or not a woman is at risk for hormone receptor-positive or hormone receptor-negative breast cancer and to subsequently tailor prevention strategies appropriately, according to new data.

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