Prostate Cancer

Cancer Gene Identified

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, May 22nd, 1995

A gene that blocks the spread of prostate cancer in laboratory mice may lead to a test that would help guide the treatment of one of the major cancer killers of men.

Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, identified a gene called KAl1 that prevents prostate cancer cells from metastasizing, or moving from their original site and seeding cancer in other organs.

A research report on the gene is published in the May 12, 1995, issue of the journal Science.

Dr. John T. Isaacs of Johns Hopkins said the action of the gene has been shown only in laboratory animals...

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