Dormant and deadly: Drugs given to breast cancer patients create deadly ‘sleeper cells’ that could cause incurable tumors for up to 20 years

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Drugs taken by thousands of breast cancer patients create deadly “sleeper cells” that may cause incurable tumours years later. Researchers say the hormone therapies kill most of the cancer cells but put some into a dormant state and help them to spread. These can reawaken up to 20 years later, causing tumours elsewhere in the body that are resistant to treatment. Scientists from Imperial College London made the discovery while studying 50,000 human breast cancer cells in a lab. They believe they can use their findings to develop treatments that keep the cells asleep for longer or awaken them so …read more

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