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...does it? What the SUNY team found was that some breast-cancer cells contain elevated levels of enzymes known as mitogen-activated protein kinases. The problem is, MAP kinases are elevated in many dividing cells. Finding high levels in breast tumors, as Princeton University molecular biologist Arnold Levine dryly observes, hardly comes as a surprise...
...molecule that triggers breast cancer. The discovery eventually may enable doctors to head off the disease before tumors develop. The study, published in the April issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, was performed by researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The molecule, mitogen-activated protein kinase, or MAP kinase, is five to 20 percent more prevalent in women with breast cancer than in those without the affliction. Researchers say the molecule's migration into the nucleus of a breast cell causes the cell to begin replicating wildly, thus causing cancer. If confirmed, the discovery...
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