Health and Fitness

Large Study Launched on Aggressive Prostate Cancer in African-American Men

National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health (Source: Wikipedia)
Bethesda, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—July 17, 2018
Contact: Rebecca Newton, NIMHD

The largest coordinated research effort to study biological and non-biological factors associated with aggressive prostate cancer in African-American men has begun. The $26.5 million study is called RESPOND, or Research on Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry: Defining the Roles of Genetics, Tumor Markers, and Social Stress. It will investigate environmental and genetic factors related to aggressiveness of prostate cancer…

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