Curing mice with prostate cancer!

So some readers will already have seen the article in today’s New York Times entitled “Cancer’s trick for dodging the immune system“. … READ MORE …

A better way to grow prostate cancer cells in the lab

In a very interesting research development, a group at Georgetown University here in the US has finally found a way to be able to extract and grow the normal and cancerous prostate cells from individual patients in the laboratory and then implant them into mice. … READ MORE …

Maraviroc delays prostate cancer progression in laboratory mice

We have another high visibility finding today about the prevention of progression of advanced prostate cancer in mice … which may or may not lead to a finding about whether the same strategy would work in men. … READ MORE …

To err is human … but to forgive may still be difficult

A story in the Boston Globe this morning documents two cases in which prostate biopsy results given to a specific patient were inaccurate because the wrong patient data was provided by a pathology laboratory. … READ MORE …

New model for prostate cancer development, progression?

According to reports on a number of science web sites today, a group of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago has developed an interesting new model which may be useful in exploring the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …