Breast cancer drugs may slow growth of lung cancer
15th Dec 2005, 05:43 GMT
Medical science knows that, much like breast tumors, some lung tumors also thrive on estrogen. Now an HHMI medical student fellow and colleagues conducting research at UCLA have managed to stop the growth of human lung cancer cells in mice with a class of breast cancer drugs called aromatase inhibitors.
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