Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that human breast tumors transplanted into mice are excellent models of metastatic cancer and could be valuable tools in the search for better treatments. According to new research, these transplanted tumors maintain the genetic errors that caused the original cancer, even though they are growing in mice. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Li S, et al. Endocrine-Therapy-Resistant ESR1 Variants Revealed by Genomic Characterization of Breast-Cancer-Derived Xenografts. Cell Reports. Published online 19 September 2013.
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