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  • Scientists identify genes that disrupt response to breast cancer treatment

    Sep 7, 2016 11:15 am by Sharita ForrestResearch
    In breakthrough research on breast cancer, a team at the University of Illinois discovered that higher levels of the nuclear transport gene XPO1 indicate when a patient is likely to be resistant to the popular drug tamoxifen. The team, from left, food science and human nutrition professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan; graduate students Karen Chen, Kinga Wrobel and Eylem Kulkoyluoglu; and epidemiology professor Rebecca Smith.

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    Scientists may have unlocked the genetic code that determines why many patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer fail to respond to the widely used drug tamoxifen.

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