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RU-4 breast cancer?

2006-12-01 15:44:36.888718+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Abortion pill thwarts breast cancer gene, at least in specially bred mice:

No one is suggesting women use the abortion pill that way. But the provocative experiment helped illustrate how the notorious breast cancer gene BRCA1 does its dirty work, by spurring a hormone called progesterone that RU-486 happens to block.

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