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Blood pressure drug may block overactive breast cancer gene

(Oncology Nursing News) UPDATED 2009-07-27

A medication used to treat high blood pressure may be able to block the activity of a gene linked to breast cancer. In a press release from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer center, researchers reveal that Losartan reduced AGTR1-positive tumors by 20 to 30 percent over the course of two months. AGTR1 is a gene that causes normal cells to act like cancer cells, researchers say, and it's overexpressed in 10 to 20 percent of breast cancer tumors. Read full story >

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