Prostate cancers are hungry, growing cells. Now we know how to cut off their food supply thanks to research to be published later this month in Cancer Research work funded by Movember and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. Researchers at the Centenary Institute in Sydney have discovered a potential future treatment for prostate cancer - through starving the tumour cells of an essential nutrient they need to grow rapidly. Their work, with human cells grown in the lab, reveals targets for drugs that could slow the progress of early and late stage prostate cancer...

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