A drug currently used to treat leukaemia might also help prevent breast cancer from spreading to other parts of the body, suggests an animal study in the open-access journal Breast Cancer Research. The discovery could also pave the way for improved early diagnostics. Peter Storz and colleagues tested the drug, decitabine, in a mouse model of breast cancer where it shrank the primary breast tumour and minimised metastasis to the animals' lungs...
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