NHRI finding could curb spread of prostate cancerStaff writer, with CNANational Health Research Institutes (NHRI) researchers have found that stimulating activity of a certain gene might suppress the ability of prostate cancer to spread to the bones, a finding they said could lead to new medicines. Prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer among men globally and the sixth-most common cancer in Taiwan, Chuu said. Chuu Chih-pin, an associate researcher at the National Health Research Institutes’ Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, center, and colleagues present their prostate cancer metastasis research results at the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taipei on Friday. The NHRI team used in vitro and mouse-based experiments to study how prostate cancer spreads in bone marrow, which, along with the lymph nodes, is one of the most common sites of metastasis, Chuu said. The team first observed that ROR2 levels were significantly lower in metastatic tumors compared with the primary tumor in the prostate or in normal prostate tissue, he said.

Source: Taipei Times April 17, 2021 15:56 UTC