UCLA researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads ...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Thu, 07/10/2008 - 23:00

(University of California - Los Angeles) Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using positron emission tomography, to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the lymph nodes, the first place prostate cancer goes before invading other organs.

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