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New Marker
for Prostate Cancer Found
(HealthDayNews, 3/11/04)
Robert Getzenberg of the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine, and team, reexamined 29 tissue samples from men who
had originally tested negative for prostate cancer, but went
on to develop the disease. They also checked 27 samples from
healthy men who did not develop cancer. The researchers found
that the negative biopsies from the prostate cancer patients
expressed the protein, EPCA, whereas biopsy tissue from the
healthy men did not. The results suggest that by testing for
EPCA, physicians can detect the earliest cell changes that
indicate the development of prostate cancer. |
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