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LOX gene

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Breast cancer specimens reveal that the LOX gene plays an underlying role in promoting metastasis. “We don’t have a lot of therapies that can target breast cancer once it has metastasized, particularly once cancer cells have lodged in the bone,” says senior author Antoine Karnoub, an assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School.

Noncancerous cells carry weight

Discovery reveals important clues to cancer metastasis

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DateOctober 16, 2012