New Option For Targeted Breast Cancer Therapy, Study Suggests

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 04/08/2008 - 10:00

Researchers may have found a new option for targeted breast cancer therapy by showing the link between a certain protein and the development of blood vessels that feed breast tumors.

The scientists developed the first living model to study the effect of the protein called T-cadherin on tumor angiogenesis by creating a strain of mice that develops spontaneous mammary gland tumors in the absence of T-cadherin.

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