Hopes for a killer prostate cancer test
September 23rd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancerA University of Liverpool team has discovered a protein that predicts survival from prostate cancer at diagnosis.
Scientists found the presence of heat shock protein-27 (Hsp-27) was a key marker of how prostate cancer would progress.
Men who tested positive for Hsp-27 at diagnosis were almost twice as likely to die from the disease in the next 15 years than those who did not.
The study features in the British Journal of Cancer.