Growth Factor Receptor Affects Prostate Cancer Progression, Baylor College of Medicine Study

HOUSTON -- (December 11, 2007) -- Breeding mice with a gene for a cellular receptor that can be turned on and off - at will - not only enabled researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to show how prostate cancer progresses, but also provides a model for studying when a drug targeting a gene will have an effect on the cancer.

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