Slow-cycling cancer cells may explain why breast cancer returns decades later Written byBree Foster, PhD

Slow-cycling cancer cells may explain why breast cancer returns decades later Researchers identify a slow-cycling, therapy-tolerant state in breast cancer cells linked to Rac1 signaling and late metastatic relapse. Written byBree Foster, PhD https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/slow-cycling-cancer-cells-may-explain-why-breast-cancer-returns-decades-later-17171 A new study has uncovered a previously underappreciated mechanism that may help explain why estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer can return years — or even decades — after patients are declared cancer-free.