Breast Cancer Cells That Slowly Tick Could Unlock Secrets to Late Relapse

Slowly ticking breast cancer cells offer new clues to late relapse

Researchers have mapped the drivers of breast cancer cells that resist therapy by growing extremely slowly rather than entering a completely dormant state.

Slow-Growing Breast Cancer Cells May Explain Why Relapse Happens Decades Later

Researchers at Garvan Institute of Medical Research have identified a previously underappreciated mechanism that may explain why some breast cancers return many years, even decades, after apparently successful treatment. The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that certain estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer cells survive therapy not by entering complete dormancy, but by continuing to divide at an extraordinarily slow p…

Breast Cancer Cells That Slowly Tick Could Unlock Secrets to Late Relapse

A groundbreaking study emerging from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has illuminated a covert biological mechanism that elucidates why estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer has a propensity to relapse long after initial treatment success. Published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, this research reveals the presence of rogue cancer cells that adopt a unique […]