Abortion Pill May Block Breast Cancer Gene
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › December 01, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- Scientists used the abortion drug RU-486 to keep tumors at bay in mice bred with a gene destined to give them breast cancer.
No one is suggesting women use the abortion pill that way. But the provocative experiment helped illustrate how the notorious breast cancer gene BRCA1 does its dirty work, by spurring a hormone called progesterone that RU-486 happens to block.See the full content of this document
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Abortion Pill May Block Breast Cancer Gene
If researchers could create a safer hormone blocker, it might offer a long-awaited alternative for women with the bad gene. They have few good options today to prevent breas...
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