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Response to hormone therapy predicts radiation resistance in ER+ breast cancer

Mar 06, 2023

How estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer responds to hormone therapy may hold keys to understanding how it will respond to radiation therapy, and an experimental drug that increases the effectiveness of hormone therapy also overcomes radiation resistance in breast cancer, a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.

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Six Nobel Prize recipients since 1985

Alumni Nobel Laureates include Joseph Goldstein and Linda Buck.

14 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
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26 National Academy of Sciences
17 National Academy of Medicine
14 American Academy of Arts and Sciences