{"id":121058,"date":"2021-03-30T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/researchers-find-the-gene-responsible-for-one-of-the-deadliest-breast-cancer-types"},"modified":"2021-03-30T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:23:02","slug":"researchers-find-the-gene-responsible-for-one-of-the-deadliest-breast-cancer-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/researchers-find-the-gene-responsible-for-one-of-the-deadliest-breast-cancer-types","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Find The Gene Responsible For One of The Deadliest Breast Cancer Types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-find-the-gene-responsible-for-one-of-the-deadliest-breast-cancer-types2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Australia have discovered a gene responsible for a particularly aggressive type of hormone-sensitive breast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"cancer\">cancer<\/a> which has tragically low survival rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully this will dramatically improve the poor outcomes these patients currently suffer,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scimex.org\/newsfeed\/gene-found-for-deadliest-breast-cancer-published-in-nature-communications\">said Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research epigeneticist Pilar Blancafort.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to overstate just how different cancers can be from one another. Even under the umbrella of \u2018breast cancer\u2019 lie several types, such as hormone receptor sensitive, HER2 positive, or non-hormone sensitive breast cancer; within those groups, there are even more types that can respond to treatments differently from one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Australia have discovered a gene responsible for a particularly aggressive type of hormone-sensitive breast cancer which has tragically low survival rates. \u201cHopefully this will dramatically improve the poor outcomes these patients currently suffer,\u201d said Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research epigeneticist Pilar Blancafort. It\u2019s hard to overstate just how different cancers can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}