Cell Culture Methods and Xenografts for Modeling Breast Cancer Metastasis in Early Drug Discovery

Approximately 75% of breast cancers are diagnosed as hormone positive and exhibit acceptable responses to endocrine-targeted therapies, whereas 7-15% are ER-/PR- Her2+ or ER-/PR-/HER2- – which are somewhat refractory to conventional endocrine treatment. Gene variations, different cancer subtypes, and diverse histopathologies and clinical outcomes among patients all present a challenge to currently available breast cancer […]