30% women fail to respond to cancer drug

SCIENTISTS now know why one in three women fail to respond to a leading breast cancer treatment.

30% women fail to respond to cancer drug

About 30% of breast cancers do not respond to the drug tamoxifen which is used to treat thousands of Irish women.

Scientists at Cancer Research UK have now found a “key chemical switch” in breast tumours that resist the drug.

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