HSPB1 and breast cancer: In 1992, Ciocca et al., in their in vitro study, found that the increased expression levels of Hsp27 and Hsp70 in breast cancer cell lines were related to an increased chemotherapy resistance against doxorubicin, and this was independent of the heat shock-induced overexpression of the P-gp, the principal molecule involved in multidrug resistance (MDR).