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News · 11-23-2010, 10:00 PM

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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11-23-2010, 10:00 PM	#1
News Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 18,983	Disrupting estrogen pathway can halt expansion of breast cancer stem cells: Research 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. More...