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Up Close - Women's Health - September 27, 2012
Some breast cancers share traits with ovarian tumors
Same drugs possibly could be used to treat both types of growths, data suggest

Newswise

What researchers are touting as the most comprehensive analysis yet of breast cancer shows that one of the most deadly subtypes is genetically more similar to ovarian tumors than to other breast cancers.

The findings, published online this month in Nature, suggest that most "basal-like" breast tumors and ovarian tumors have similar genetic origins and potentially could be treated with the same drugs, says the study's co-leader Dr. Matthew J. Ellis, the Anheuser-Busch Chair in Medic...


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