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Three newly discovered molecules may be important in treating breast and prostate cancers, according to a team of researchers from The University of Western Australia who are interested in the strong link between hormones and cancer.

Associate Professor Andrew Redfern, from the UWA-affiliated Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, said about 200 Western Australians died every year because of the role of oestrogen in female breast cancer patients and testosterone in male prostate cancer patients.

In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, first author Associate Professor Redfern and his colleagues write that the newly discovered molecules are a key in the oestrogen- and testosterone-receptor signalling pathways.

Cancer patients will be more likely to survive if oncologists have a way to better control these hormones, they say.

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