New discovery of level 3 negative breast cancer

According to a study published April 5 in the journal Nature, a group of scientists from Vancouver-based Simon Fraser University discovered the cancer. Third-degree negative breast cancer, a rare form of breast cancer that has genetic diversity in its tumor.

>>>Detecting new breast cancer gene

This may be a clue to help scientists find new therapies in treating this deadly disease.

Through new findings, scientists have explained why third-degree breast cancer accounts for only 16% of all other forms of breast cancer.

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This is a rare, genetically diverse breast cancer in its tumor

A group of 59 scientists worldwide, including four from Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver discovered this when they analyzed the largest sample of genes taken from a cancerous mass. Third breast negative.

When analyzing the gene samples, they expected that a gene model similar to the genomes of one hundred other tumors would be isolated and sketched on a computer. But what they discovered was completely unexpected.Genes taken from third-degree negative breast cancer cells are capable of altering and diversifying.

Steven Jones, a professor of biochemistry from the Molecular Biology Institute, co-authored the study, said: "When studying tumors at the molecular level, it shows us that women are face different forms of breast cancer, because they are not the only one ".

The findings open hope for health professionals on the way to find new ways to treat this dangerous disease as soon as possible.

Scientists consider third-degree negative breast cancer to be the most dangerous in all forms of breast cancer because modern drug therapies seem to be "defeated" by it. Often, patients with this type of breast cancer need to try many treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to get any hope of survival.