Large-scale genetic analysis reveals more about prostate cancer
Large-scale genetic analysis reveals more about prostate cancer
Prostate cancer experts have conducted a large-scale genetic analysis of multiple samples of the disease to gain a fresh insight into it.Findings from doctors at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US, have been published in the journal Cancer Cell and provide an invaluable resource for the cancer research community.
It is hoped the data could lead to more effective treatment strategies as more becomes known about the disease.
"To obtain a more comprehensive picture of prostate cancer genomics, we adopted an integrated comprehensive approach to analyze 218 primary and metastatic prostate cancer as well as 12 cell lines," said senior study author Dr Charles Sawyers.
"Taken together, our findings clarify the role of several known cancer pathways in prostate cancer, implicate several new ones, and provide a blueprint for clinical development of pathway inhibitors."
Men living in Ireland now have a one in eleven chance of developing prostate cancer, according to data from the Irish Cancer Society.
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