Research suggests possible urine test for prostate cancer

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 12:49 in Health & Medicine

A urine test could someday help distinguish between aggressive forms of prostate cancer that need to be treated quickly and benign types. A chemical called sarcosine becomes more abundant in prostate tumours and also seems to assist prostate cancer cells to invade surrounding tissue, researchers say.

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