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Prostate prognosis

Newly identified prostate cancer-associated genes could be prognostic markers

April 25, 2018 9:46 PM UTC

A Dana-Farber Cancer Institute team has uncovered previously unreported associations between prostate cancer and low-frequency mutations in 79 genes that could serve as prognostic markers for metastatic disease.

The results, published this month in Nature Genetics, build on previous work by author Eliezer Van Allen, an assistant professor of medicical oncology at Dana-Farber...