Team discovers new inhibitors of estrogen-dependent breast cance...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 06/15/2008 - 23:00

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Researchers have discovered a new family of agents that inhibit the growth of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells.

The finding, described today at a meeting of the Endocrine Society, has opened an avenue of research into new drugs to combat estrogen-dependent breast cancers.

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