Is That Prostate Cancer Worth Treating? Chromosomes May Tell
To treat, or not to treat: That remains one of the tough conundrums for men with prostate cancer and their doctors, because some tumors may be aggressive, while others may take decades to cause harm.
Now, new research suggests that tracking specific changes in the number of chromosomes inside prostate cancer cells might help solve the riddle.
Besides giving new insights into how prostate tumors form and spread, the chromosomal data might someday “be employed clinically to inform risk stratification and treatment” decisions for patients, according to a team led by Angelika Amon, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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