Researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes

Friday, July 11, 2008 - 13:14 in Health & Medicine

Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the lymph nodes, the first place prostate cancer goes before invading other organs.

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