This is especially striking in breast cancer patients, who if diagnosed early enough, have a good chance of recovering with the right kind of therapy. Breast cancer has today emerged as the most common type of cancer that affects women worldwide. In the end, only one in every thousand cancer cells are successful in this transition. This knowledge will also help dispel the mystery of why drugs that work on primary tumours do not work on cells that have moved to other places. Radhika is especially interested in these questions from the perspective of breast cancer.

Source: The Hindu December 30, 2017 08:26 UTC