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SUBMITTER: Rikhi R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5613703 | biostudies-other | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Biochemistry and biophysics reports 20160804
<h4>Background and aims</h4>Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in this population. Breast cancer related deaths have declined due to screening and adjuvant therapies, yet a driving clinical need exists to better understand the cause of the deadliest aspect of breast cancer, metastatic disease. Breast cancer metastasizes to several distant organs, the liver being the third most common site. To date, very few murine models of hepa ...[more]