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Towards the end of the presentation, 'Poonsters presented the actor with a silver chalice and keys to a purple and yellow striped Chevrolet. The car's hood read: "Chevy's Heavy Chevy...
...Hood's immediate objective is to find biological markers that will characterize a tumor as essentially harmless or dangerous while it is still small--which would eliminate much of the uncertainty about decisions to treat, how to treat or not to treat prostate cancer. "A great many men who die in their their 70s and 80s have small prostate cancers that haven't done anything," Hood says, and wouldn't have benefited from treatment...
...strategy is to make use of the large bank of prostate tissue gathered by Washington University's Dr. Catalona and Dr. Paul Lange of the University of Washington, both members of the consortium. Researchers in Hood's lab plan to test every one of the consortium's variety of 600 tumor cells along with normal prostate cells collected at every stage of human development. Then they will use genetic-engineering techniques to produce markers that can identify tumors that are dangerous and those that are not. The same approach, he says, may eventually be used to identify many other kinds...
...Hood's group is also trying to find its first prostate-cancer gene, perhaps before the end of the year. All told, researchers believe, there could be as many as 10 such genes. Once these genes are identified, scientists can develop tests for a man's susceptibility to prostate cancer and eventually, perhaps, use gene therapy to fight the disease. Long before that, however, identification of the genes may help doctors understand what environmental factors interact with the genes and contribute to the development of prostate tumors...
...achieve this goal, they need blood samples and pedigrees from volunteer families with at least three living members who have prostate cancer. They are currently working with 200 families recruited when Hood made an appeal during an appearance on cnn's Larry King Live, but many more are needed. (Interested families can call 800-777-3035 to volunteer...