Welcome to the iSource National Breast Cancer Centre (the Centre), Sydney, Australia. The Centre opened in June 1995 and is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. This site is designed to be a one-stop site for information about breast cancer in Australia.

The latest medical news and information for patients or friends/parents of patients diagnosed with breast cancer and breast cancer-related disorders.

Against Breast Cancer is a charitable organisation that funds research work into the causes of breast cancer.

Article by Lynn Yarris written June 23, 1995. Two more critical pieces have been added to the puzzle of how breakdowns in the extracellular matrix (ECM)--a mass of protein that serves as support "scaffolding" for cells--can lead to breast cancer. The pieces represent the findings of two separate but related studies conducted through a collaboration led by Mina Bissell, director of the Laboratory's Life Sciences Division (LSD), and Zena Werb, a professor with UC San Francisco's Laboratory of Radiobiology and