The Devil is in the Methods: Lineage Tracing, Functional Screens and Sequencing, Hormones, Tumour-stroma Interactions, and Expansion of Human Breast Tumours As Xenografts

Overview

Journal Breast Cancer Res

Specialty Oncology

Date 2011 Oct 25

PMID 22017807

Authors

Maria Del Mar Vivanco

John Stingl

Robert B Clarke

Mohamed Bentires-Alj

Affiliations

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Abstract

The meeting of the European Network for Breast Development and Cancer (ENBDC) on 'Methods in Mammary Gland Development and Cancer' has become an annual international rendezvous for scientists with interests in the normal and neoplastic breast. The third meeting in this series, held in April-May 2011 in Weggis, Switzerland, focussed on functional screens and sequencing, hormones, lineage tracing, tumor-stroma interactions and the expansion of human breast tumours as xenografts.

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