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Tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer cells is accompanied by an enhanced motile and invasive phenotype: inhibition by gefitinib ('Iressa', ZD1839).
Clinical & experimental metastasis - 1 Jan 2004
Hiscox Stephen, Morgan Liam, Barrow Denise, Dutkowskil Carol, Wakeling Alan, Nicholson Robert I
Abstract excerpt
Despite an initial response to antihormonal therapies, the development of resistance will occur in a significant number of breast cancer patients. The mechanisms that underlie acquired resistance are not yet clear. Using a previously established in vitro cell model of tamoxifen resistance in MCF7 cells, shown to display autocrine epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signalling, we assessed how resistance might...
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