Disrupting estrogen pathway can halt expansion of breast cancer stem cells: Research

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Breast cancer stem cells (CSCs), the aggressive cells thought to be resistant to current anti-cancer therapies and which promote metastasis, are stimulated by estrogen via a pathway that mirrors normal stem cell development.

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