Friday, October 15, 2010

Urine Test For Prostate Cancer Hopeful

New research led by UK scientists has shown that a protein in urine could be a reliable marker for prostate cancer risk, and although there is still a lot of work to be done to move it from the laboratory to the clinic, the finding is raising hopes that an easy and reliable clinical test for prostate cancer is now much closer.

The study, led by scientists from the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Research Institute and The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), was published online on 13 October in PLoS ONE, an open access scientific journal from the Public Library of Science. Scientists from other research centres in the UK, Australia, Spain and the US were also involved in the study.

Read more at Medical News Today.

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