Researchers are investigating how the most common type of breast cancer resists hormone therapy, thanks to new funding from Breast Cancer Now.
Up to 80% of women with the disease are diagnosed with oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer.
Breast Cancer Now has awarded £249,952 to Professor Simak Ali and his team at Imperial College London to help discover why some breast cancers are resistant to hormone therapy, and to find better ways to treat people with ER-positive secondary breast cancer. By using breast cancer cells grown in the lab and cutting-edge gene analysis techniques to study the consequences of different ER gene alterations, they hope to find more effective ways to treat ER-positive secondary breast cancers that don’t respond to hormone therapy.
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