Researchers Discover a Common Variation in a Gene Segment that Increases the Risk for Prostate Cancer - April 1, 2007

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on December 31st, 1969 at 07:00pm

Researchers report that a variation in a portion of DNA strongly predicts prostate cancer risk and that this common variation may be responsible for up to 20 percent of prostate cancer cases in white men in the United States. The research was conducted by investigators from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and their partners in the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) initiative.

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