When To Wait And When To Treat? New Program Will Search For Biomarkers In Men With Prostate Cancer To Help Find An Answer

SEATTLE -- Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have a lead role in a new public/private partnership to create the first systematic surveillance program of men with prostate cancer to look for biological clues to help determine when to wait and when to treat the disease. The project was announced by the Canary Foundation and the National Cancer Institute. Peter Nelson, M.D., of the Hutchinson Center's Clinical Research and Human Biology divisions, will lead the Canary Prostate Consortium. This group of six institutions nationwide will enroll men in a cancer-surveillance study to look for biomarkers -- proteins in the blood that could predict prostate-tumor aggressiveness. The new study is meant to he...