A team of Melbourne-based researchers have been awarded a $670,000 NMHRC grant to develop techniques to analyse genetic information in order to identify lethal prostate cancers from less aggressive forms of the disease, potentially allowing more targeted treatments.
Eight patients have already donated to the project cancerous tissue from the prostate and bones at different stages of the disease.
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"This project bridges computing and medicine and gives us the capacity to process the data into meaningful biology," said Associate Professor Christopher Hovens, director of scientific research at the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre.
Movember, the annual prostate cancer and male mental health awareness and fundraising event, is currently in full swing.
