UCLA Cancer Researchers Locate And Image Prostate Cancer As It Spreads To The Lymph Nodes

 11.07.2008 14:12   medicalnewstoday.com

Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the lymph nodes, the first place prostate cancer goes before invading other organs. The tiny cancer metastases in the pelvic lymph nodes are very difficult to find using conventional imaging tools such as CT scanning.

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