Enzyme May Drive Breast Cancer Growth

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A recently discovered enzyme drives the production of a potent form of estrogen in human breast cancer tissue, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have found. The extra-strength estrogen, called estradiol, then drives the production of even more enzyme, in what may be a lethal feed-forward mechanism...

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Link to abstract that is the basis of the article: http://mend.endojournals.org/content/early/2011/05/12/me.2010-0463.abstract

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