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Almost 90 per cent of men with advanced prostate cancer carry genetic mutations in their tumours that could be targeted by either existing or new cancer drugs, a landmark new study reveals.
Scientists in the UK and the US have created a comprehensive map of the genetic mutations within lethal prostate cancers that have spread around the body, in a paper being hailed as the disease's 'Rosetta Stone'. Researchers say that doctors could now start testing for these 'clinically actionable' mutations and give patients with advanced prostate cancer existing drugs or drug combinations targeted at these specific genomic aberrations in their cancers. The study was led in the UK by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, in collaboration with researchers from eight academic clinical trials centres around the world.
Uniquely, doctors at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and at hospitals in the US were able to collect large numbers of samples of metastatic cancers -- cancers that had spread from the original tumour to other parts of the body. Normally these samples are extremely hard to access, and this is the first study in the world to carry out in-depth analysis of metastatic prostate cancers that are resistant to standard treatments.
The research is published in the journal Cell, and is funded by Stand up to Cancer and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:43AM
Don't worry. You'll die before your insurance pays for your treatment.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:49AM
Don't worry, not all countries have a fucked up health care (care?) system.. :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:51AM
Not everybody has a prostate, either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @02:19AM
Female prostate [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @03:55PM
This may be a novel idea to you, but if you are not interested in the conversation, then how about not sticking your goddamn nose into it? There is no much point in entering a discussion just to declare your indifference. Despite what you might have come to believe, the world doesn't need your opinion on every single topic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:38PM
There is a world outside of the US, you know. The US "healthcare system" may be made up entirely by greedy death panels, but in the rest of the world they actually care about human life more than the almighty dollar.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @04:04AM
Yes, greed stops at the US borders. It's a fucking paradise everywhere else.
Boy you are a twit.