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The role of milk thistle extract in breast carcinoma cell line (MCF-7) apoptosis with doxorubicin.

@article{Rastegar2013TheRO,
  title={The role of milk thistle extract in breast carcinoma cell line (MCF-7) apoptosis with doxorubicin.},
  author={Hussein Rastegar and Hamidreza Ahmadi Ashtiani and Soghra Anjarani and Saeed Bokaee and Arash Khaki and Leila Javadi},
  journal={Acta medica Iranica},
  year={2013},
  volume={51 9},
  pages={
          591-8
        }
}
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed invasive malignancy and first leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Iranian women. Based on silymarin's unique characteristics, its application in chemotherapy combined with doxorubicin can be effective to enhance the efficacy together with a reduced toxicity on normal tissues. The present study focus on evaluate the efficacy of silymarin in combination with doxorubicin, on viability and apoptosis of estrogen-dependent breast carcinoma cell line… 
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