More blood vessels in hormone-resistant prostate tumors

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Mon, 12/14/2009 - 23:00

(University of Gothenburg) Patients with advanced prostate cancer are often treated with hormones, but when the tumours start growing again they have more and different blood vessels, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

This discovery paves the way for new treatments for hormone-resistant prostate cancer.

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