Source: University of California - Los Angeles
Date: July 29, 2010
Summary:
University of California, Los Angeles scientists have identified for the first time a cell of origin for human prostate cancer, a discovery that could result in better predictive and diagnostic tools and the development of new and more effective targeted treatments for the disease. The researchers, from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, proved that basal cells found in benign prostate tissue could become human prostate cancer in mice with suppressed immune systems, a finding that bucks conventional wisdom.
The study appears July 30 in the peer-reviewed journal Science.
