American Association for Cancer Research
Genetic risk factors may tailor prostate cancer screening approaches
Published in Genetics and Environmental Law Weekly, December 6th, 2008
"There have been years of effort to try to identify genes and genetic mutations associated with prostate cancer as there are for breast cancer," said Veda N. Giri, M.D., director of the Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program (PRAP) at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia. "Prostate cancer is a more genetically complex disease."
Giri and colleagues studied patients who are part of the center's Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program, an...
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