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Androgen Production Continues in Prostate Cancer Tumors


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"As we develop new drug targets, we will need to focus on enzymes that seem to be active in the tumor itself. This offers a new way of looking at hormone suppression. In addition to systemic suppression, it suggests we also need to target hormone suppression much more specifically, inside the tumor itself."

The study was published in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research.

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SOURCE: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, news release, June 1, 2008


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