Breakthrough in breast cancer research

Australian researchers have made a potential breakthrough for women with untreatable breast cancer. Scientists have identified DNA changes in cancer cells of women suffering endocrine-resistant breast cancer. The effects of which stops hormone therapies from working. Endocrine resistance is found in about 30 per cent of patients with estrogen receptor positive tumours. Medical researchers at the Garvan Institute have identified a process that can cause endocrine resistance and could lead to new treatments.