Scientists unveil prostate cancer's 'Rosetta Stone'

Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 13:10 in Health & Medicine

Almost 90 percent of men with advanced prostate cancer carry genetic mutations in their tumors that could be targeted by either existing or new cancer drugs, a landmark new study reveals. Scientists now have created a comprehensive map of the genetic mutations within lethal prostate cancers that have spread around the body, in a paper being hailed as the disease's 'Rosetta Stone.'

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