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Contact: Toni Heinzl
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Caption: Researchers including Drs. Jonathan Uhr (left) and Debu Tripathy have for the first time described how copies of a gene are responsible for metastases in early-stage breast cancer. The gene, called uPAR, may offer a target for therapeutic drugs to stop or slow the disease's progression and could serve as a screening tool for assessing which drugs a patient will respond to.
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