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Cancer Australia funding for arming androgen receptors to transform endocrine therapy for ER+ breast cancer
Associate Professor Theresa Hickey and her team have received $600,000 from Cancer Australia to support research to examine the complex interaction between estrogen and androgen to develop new, more effective strategies for treating breast cancer, with potential to also improve quality of life.
Latest news in breast cancer trials meeting
Breast Cancer Trials (BCT) held their 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting in Melbourne on July 27-30.
In the Translational Research session at this meeting, Prof Wayne Tilley, Director of the Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories (DRMCRL) presented work on "Understanding the role of the androgen receptor" as targeting the androgen receptor (AR) in breast cancer has been of intense clinical interest over the past two decades.
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