Feng Zengkun

The Straits Times

Publication Date : 27-07-2013

Scientists in Singapore have identified a gene which worsens breast cancer, in a development which could lead to more effective treatment

Scientists in Singapore have identified a gene which worsens breast cancer, in a development which could lead to more effective treatment.

Scientists in Singapore have identified a gene which makes an aggressive form of breast cancer even worse, in a development which could lead to more effective drugs to treat it.

Patients with triple negative breast cancer, whose tumours have high levels of a gene called UBASH3B, are likely to have earlier relapses within three years of treatment.

Scientists at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) also said that the cancer in these patients' is more virulent and spreads faster in the body.

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