Therapeutic Resistance to Anti-Hormonal Drugs in Breast Cancer New Molecular Aspects and their Potential as Targets /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hiscox, Stephen (Editor), Gee, Julia (Editor), Nicholson, Robert I. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Oncology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.

One of the main causes of failure in the treatment of breast cancer is the intrinsic presence of, or development of, drug resistance by the cancer cells. Recent studies on the mechanisms of cancer drug resistance have yielded important information highlighting both how tumour cells may escape these...