MD Anderson OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 5, May 1999 Page: Front Cover
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MAY 1999
VOL. 44, NO.5
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CANCER CENTER
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Prostate Cancer
Protocols
Phase I, II, and III
therapeutic and
palliative studies
enroll patients.Pain Relief in
Minority Patients
Physicians and patients
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;cles and may help forges multidisciplinary
vent colon cancer. alliances.MD Anderson
nco oResearchers Seek Genetic Clues to High
Prostate Cancer Incidence in African Americans
by Vickie WilliamsP rostate cancer occurs
in African-American
men more often
than in any other
racial group in the world, and
they die at two to four times the
rate of other American popula-
tions. Why this happens is not
understood, and cultural and
historical barriers make finding
an explanation more difficult.
Now two powerful institutions
and their physician collaborators
are trying to find patterns that will
yield answers. Howard University in
Washington, D.C., and the National
Institutes of Health's Human Ge-
nome Research Institute (HGRI)
in Bethesda, Maryland, are studying
genetic profiles to find a pattern
that links African-American families
to prostate cancer.
Helping them is Assistant Professor
of Urology Curtis Pettaway, M.D., of
the Department of Urology at The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson
Cancer Center. He and other re-
searchers are recruiting African-r#.
Assistant Prolessor of Urology Curtis Pettaway, M.D. (right), talks with Raleigh
Woodard, an African-American Hereditary Prostate Cancer Study participant. The
two-year; $3.5 million nationwide research initiative is expected to recruit 100 families
in an effort to identify genes associated with prostate cancerAmerican families to the study. The
researchers provide the subjects; the
institutions provide the funding, study
coordination, and genetic analyses.
"If you have a group of individuals
who appear to be predisposed to the
early onset of prostate cancer, such as
African Americans, then it seems thatit would be prudent to study this
population to get insights into what
makes the cancer grow," Dr. Pettaway
said. "These insights may have
widespread applicability for preven-
tion, diagnosis, and therapeutic
approaches to prostate cancer.
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