THE IMPORTANCE OF VITAMIN D RECEPTOR IN BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS

Description

Breast cancer is the most recurrent cancer among women, being a heterogeneous ailment, with diverse morphologies, metastatic behavior and its response therapeutically. There are vitamin D receptors in breast tissue, and vitamin D can bind to these receptors. This can cause oncogenes to die or stop growing, and can stop the cancer cells from spreading to other parts of the body. This book unveils the correlation between the expression of Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) and other commonly used antibodies in invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) tissues of the breast. It also conversed the relevance of VDR in breast cancer diagnosis.