Breast cancer
Action sites of breast cancer treatments. A silhouette of a woman with a cut of the brain with the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland stimulates secretion of estrogen by the ovary, (under the figure, with a frontal section uterus), which will attach to the estrogen receptors of cancer cells (bottom center). On the silhouette a mammary gland with the axillary ganglia that relate to it. A first zoom starts from this gland to show the anatomical structure of the mammary gland with a main galactophore duct receiving the lobules, themselves made of acinus. An enlarged acinus is seen in section. A cancerous tumor is located on the main milk duct. A blood vessel surrounding these cancerous cells zooms into cancerous cells seen in section in the foreground the tumor with its many vessels in the background. The HER2 (green), EGFR (pink) and estrogen receptor (orange) receptors are present on the cancer cell whose nucleus is cut to show the mitotic spindle. A strand of DNA in the replication phase is extracted from a chromosome.
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Photo credit: © WITT-DEGUILLAUME / BSIP / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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