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Multidisciplinary team awarded grant to test novel treatments for prostate cancer


July 3, 2014

Drs. Christina Addison and Jim Dimitroulakos have received $280,000 to identify new biomarkers and to test the efficacy of novel treatments in patient-derived prostate tumor tissues. The grant from the Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation in partnership with the Telus Ride for Dad will support research activities of a multidisciplinary team of investigators that includes basic scientists, oncologists, urologists and pathologists. The team will tackle many of the critical issues facing patients with prostate cancer such as better predicting whether a cancer will metastasize, spread or recur; improve outcomes among established prostate cancer treatments; and optimize treatments for patients who have the most aggressive form of prostate cancer. The end goal is to better predict the risk of a patient having aggressive or resistant prostate cancer and personalize treatment for those patients.

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