Using New Mouse Model to Find a Druggable Target in Metastatic Prostate Cancer (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Using New Mouse Model to Find a Druggable Target in Metastatic Prostate Cancer

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Scientists have developed a new mouse model for metastatic prostate cancer that more accurately reflects the most lethal events in human patients. Shown here is a tumor that metastasized from its original site in the prostate to the lung. Scientists were surprise to find the Myc protein in these tumors and, through further experiments, discovered that simply increasing the amount of Myc in the cell is enough to drive metastasis, suggesting a druggable target for metastatic prostate cancer.

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Lloyd Trotman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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