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Article: Estrogens shield breast cancer cells.(MOLECULAR BIOLOGY)
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Among the more insidious aspects of cancer is its capacity for escaping the anticancer defenses of the host. New research suggests that some estrogens may further reinforce this evasion of host immunity, even as those same hormones stimulate the growth and spread of hormone-responsive cancers. According to David Shapiro, a medical and biochemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the new findings highlight the role that estrogen-related interference with immune cell function may play in the development and progression of breast cancer.
Shapiro and his colleagues, reporting in a paper posted 22 January 2007 ahead of publication in ...