Researchers identify new therapeutic target for metastatic prostate cancer

(Rockefeller University Press) Researchers in New York have found that treating human prostate cancer cells with a drug that targets a protein called PHLPP2 may prevent the cancer cells from spreading to other organs in the body. The study, which will be published May 15 in the Journal of Cell Biology, reveals that inhibiting PHLPP2 lowered the levels of MYC, an oncogenic protein that causes many different types of cancer that cannot be targeted by conventional drug therapies.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news