UA researcher’s patented treatment could stop cancer metastasis

With a patented treatment for breast-cancer tumors and newly formed company, a University of Arizona researcher is poised to move her research out of the lab and into the clinical setting. Joyce Schroeder has discovered two proteins that work together to drive triple-negative breast cancer. She’s since developed a drug that has been proven in mice to reduce tumor size and prevent metastasis to other parts of the body.“The best part of the story…