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Protein discovery gives hope to future breast cancer patients
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Research led by led by Professor Rosemary O’Connor and Dr Orla Cox, involving input from researchers in Ireland, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, have discovered a protein that gives hopes to future breast cancer patients.
The project was carried out in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, as part of BREAST-PREDICT, the Irish Cancer Society’s national collaborative breast cancer research centre.
The work was recently published in the leading journal Cancer Research and a report summary on the research can be read on the Irish Cancer Society website.