Prostate News Archive
11-Apr-2009
New Drug Shows Promise In Treating Drug-resistant Prostate Cancer (Science Daily)
A new therapy for metastatic prostate cancer has shown considerable promise in early clinical trials involving patients whose disease has become resistant to current drugs. Chemists and biologists have created a new drug to treat a particularly lethal form of prostate cancer: castration resistant prostate cancer. Gene Fusion Discovery May Lead to Improved Prostate Cancer Test (Newswise)
A newly discovered gene fusion is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers, according to a new study. The findings may lead to more accurate tests for prostate cancer. The gene fusion biomarker may also represent an entirely new mechanism that cancer cells use to outgrow their healthy neighbors. Gene fusion discovery may lead to improved prostate cancer test (EurekAlert!)
( New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College ) A newly discovered gene fusion is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers, according to a new study. The findings may lead to more accurate tests for prostate cancer. The gene fusion biomarker may also represent an entirely new mechanism that cancer cells use to outgrow their healthy neighbors.
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