Scientific breakthrough could prevent breast cancer ‘time bomb’

Scientific breakthrough could prevent breast cancer ‘time bomb’ Scientists have come up with a strategy that could prevent breast cancer from returning in another part of a patient’s body years or decades later.

In what experts have described as a “time bomb”, patients with the most common type of breast cancer – oestrogen receptor positive (ER+) – have a continued risk of their cancer recurring and forming incurable tumours, as secondary or metastatic breast cancer. The Independent

See also:

• Age-associated microenvironmental changes highlight the role of PDGF-C in ER+ breast cancer metastatic relapse (open access) Nature Cancer
• UK scientists discover a new way to help prevent breast cancer ‘time bomb’ Breast Cancer Now