New research from QIMR Berghofer has found that the hormone testosterone may play an important role in the development of endometrial cancer.
The testosterone connection was related to a specific region of the human genome which the study discovered has links to a higher risk of endometrial cancer.
"There are already approved drugs designed to block and counteract the hormone's effects. Further research may justify trying to repurpose those drugs to help women with endometrial cancer. Glubb said they would use laboratory-grown organoids resembling endometrial cancer tumors, to investigate genes involved in the development of the disease.
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