Discover the unique genome that causes prostate cancer

Scientists have found a set of genes thought to play a major role in causing prostate cancer.

This finding has been warmly welcomed by the medical community because it has changed the traditional way of thinking about the genetic origin of the disease.

Mark Rubin, director of pathology at Boston Central Hospital, one of the study's participants, said that if modern medicine discovered this problem earlier, the cancer would be evil. For men, this can be effectively prevented.

Professor Michael Heinrich of Oregon Health and Cancer Research Institute commented: 'This is an amazing finding. It will be the golden key to prevent prostate cancer. The discovery of this unique genetic code will help us understand the whole problem of this disease, besides it involves many other treatments'. Currently in the United States alone, about 232,000 men develop prostate cancer in a year.

Until now doctors still think that the cause of cancer is due to random genetic mutations, but this study is the first to prove that prostate cancer has appeared after Some genes have fused together.

Doctors have found about 80% of the genes combined to cause this disease in about 29 samples of prostate cancer, and none of the same gene samples exist in 50 samples on muscle People who do not have cancer.

This result will completely change the treatment of prostate cancer, a disease that doctors have long thought and treated as an independent cancer. Doctors have also been treating breast cancer with the same methods as treating prostate cancer.

Chinnaiyan and his colleagues discovered that these unified genes exist only in prostate tissue, and they are trying to find out if these genes exist in blood or urine.

Chinnaiyan and colleagues hope that these genes will provide doctors with early information about the appearance of dangerous tumors to set out aggressive treatment requirements. This is also good news for men because the discovery of the disease-causing genome will provide the most accurate and appropriate treatments.

THIEN TRANG ( USA Today )