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Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have identified a protein that plays a central role in enabling aggressive breast cancer cells to spread to other parts of the body, offering hope to treating the aggressive disease.
Triple-negative breast cancer remains one of the most challenging diagnoses to receive. While medical advances have improved the ability to surgically remove primary tumours, the true danger lies in metastasis, which is the spread of cancer cells to vital organs like the lungs, liver, or brain.