Breast Cancer Gene Blocked by Currently Available Antihypertensive - Laboratory Study with Mice
Breast cancer statistics: 194,280 Americans will be diagnosed with
breast cancer this year and 40,610 will die from the disease, according
to the American Cancer Society. Researchers Arul Chinnaiyan and Scott Tomlins. Researchers have
identified a gene that is over-expressed in up to 20 percent of breast
cancers and that could be blocked in the lab by a currently available
blood pressure drug,losartan, a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat high blood pressure.