Potentially treatable genetic mutations revealed in subset of prostate cancer patients

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) Prostate cancer patients resistant to PSMA-targeted therapy often have potentially treatable mutations in their DNA damage-repair genes, according to research published in the May issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In an exploratory study using a relatively new technique--targeted next-generation gene sequencing--researchers found mutations in six out of seven patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who did not respond to (PSMA)-targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy despite sufficient PSMA expression in tumors.
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