FYN and breast carcinoma: We have previously observed that FYN, one of the Src family kinases, is important for growth and survival of our MCF-7-derived tamoxifen resistant cell lines [41], and that the broad-spectrum Src family kinase inhibitor PP2 exerted preferential growth inhibition of the tamoxifen resistant MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines compared to the parental cells [41].