A team of researchers led by Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and collaborators at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Erasmus Medical Center, have discovered a gene variant that drives the spread of breast cancer. Published in Science Translational Medicine, the study lays the early foundation for predicting which breast cancer patients may develop more aggressive disease and for designing more effective treatments. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Hatami R, et al. KLF6-SV1 Drives Breast Cancer Metastasis and Is Associated with Poor Survival. Sci Transl Med. 2013 Jan 23;5(169):169ra12. PMID: 23345610
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