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Drug combo gangs up to take on triple-negative breast cancer

Anne Li                                                                                     September 30th, 2017                            anne2001.li@gmail.com

 

In the hunt for novel treatments against an aggressive form of breast cancer, researchers combined a new protein inhibitor with a chemotherapy drug to create a powerful combination that resulted in cancer cell death. Triple-negative breast cancer is a subtype that does not express hormone receptor or HER2. It occurs in approximately 15 percent of patients with breast cancer. This subtype tends to be more aggressive and targeted therapeutic treatment options are lacking.

 

See original article at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170926115935.htm

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