Doctors Redefine Breast Cancer Into 10 Subtypes in Study
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Breast cancer stems from 10 genetic subtypes, not four as previously thought, according to a study published today in the journal Nature.
The findings by researchers in the U.K. and Canada will eventually enable doctors to better predict survival times in women with the disease and tailor the most appropriate treatment to their type of tumor, said Carlos Caldas, one of the authors and the chairman of cancer medicine at the University of Cambridge in England.