Autopsy study links prostate cancer to single rogue cell
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 16:49
in Health & Medicine
One cell...one initial set of genetic changes - that's all it takes to begin a series of events that lead to metastatic cancer. Now, Johns Hopkins experts have tracked how the cancer process began in 33 men with prostate cancer who died of the disease.
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