Cell Cycle
Female steroid hormones like oestrogen and progesterone strongly influence cell reproduction in the breast. We are particularly interested in how these hormones act on the cell cycle machinery and how control over the cell cycle is lost in breast cancer cells. Since the cell cycle gene cyclin D1 is frequently overexpressed in breast cancer, we have been studying genes that act upstream of cyclin D1. In collaboration with the Steroid Hormone Action and Breast Cancer Translational Groups, we are also searching for new genes that might link oestrogen action with the cell cycle and so could be involved in resistance to the anti-oestrogen medication, tamoxifen, in the clinic.
Staff
Christine Lee |
Marcelo Sergio |
Elizabeth Caldon |
Visiting Student Judith Schuette |
News
Calculating how breast cancers will respond to tamoxifen
MEDIA RELEASE:
08 Sep 2008
A discovery by Garvan scientists should help clinicians decide which women with breast cancer will make good candidates for anti-oestrogen therapies, such as tamoxifen, and which will not.
