14 November 2017
By Dr Mitchell Lawrence, from Monash University and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
To diagnose prostate cancer, a pathologist will carefully study samples of the prostate taken in a biopsy. If a tumour is spotted, they will examine patterns of cells to estimate the severity of the tumour, and help guide patient treatment. For quite some time, pathologists have known about a distinctive pattern called intraductal carcinoma of the prostate. New evidence from Australian researchers is finally shedding light on what this pattern means.
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