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Dublin scientist hopes to find new way to treat breast cancer that has spread to the brain

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Walk the Walk Fellow and Breast Cancer Now scientist Dr Varešlija is studying how breast cancer spreads to the brain, where it becomes incurable, in the hope of revealing new treatment options.

A leading scientist from the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has been awarded a fellowship grant of over £660,000* to investigate how gene switches in breast cancer cells might make the disease more likely to spread to the brain and to find new ways to stop this from happening.

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