Using Mice to Treat (Wo)men: Mining Genetic Changes in Patient Xenografts to Attack Breast Cancer

In this issue of Cell Reports, Li et al. show that the analysis of genetic changes in patient-derived xenografts can reveal crucial details of tumor evolution, such as the emergence of functional estrogen receptor mutations in endocrine-resistant breast cancer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Steffi Oesterreich, Adam M. Brufsky, Nancy E. Davidson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-09-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124713005160