Prostate Cancer: Dissecting Out Metastasis
Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 12:14
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have found that urokine plasminogen activator (uPA) may be instrumental in the early stages of metastasis. Prostate cancer, which develops most frequently in men over fifty, is the most common type of cancer of men in the United States. Most prostate cancer-related deaths are due to advanced disease, which often results in metastatic spread to other organs.