Molecule Drives Aggressive Breast Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130627190327.htm

Recent studies by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University's Kimmel Cancer Center have shown a gene known to coordinate initial development of the eye (EYA1) is a powerful breast tumor promoter in mice. The gene EYA1 was also shown to be overexpressed in a genetic breast cancer subtype called luminal B.