Sunday, December 01, 2019

Clues from DNA could help predict growth of prostate cancer

Cancer is history! This seems to be very promising research with implications for other cancers as well!

"Researchers ... have identified 1,178 biomarkers in men’s genomes ... that predict how an individual person’s prostate cancer will grow. ... The researchers focused ... on ... DNA methylation. ... Some of these parts control cellular functions, such as the production of proteins. When tumors form, they have the ability to hijack DNA methylation to help the cancer cells grow and spread by turning cellular functions on and off. ... In the new study, researchers discovered that variations in the DNA a person is born with make it easier or harder for a tumor to use methylation to turn off and on cancer genes."

Clues from DNA could help predict growth of prostate cancer | UCLA: The finding suggests that predicting how a person’s cancer will evolve may lie in their inherited genetic material.

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