Using a new drug that enlists the aid of an enzyme naturally abundant in the prostate gland, researchers have reversed advanced prostate cancer in mice. If the drug similarly thwarts the cancer in men, it would be the first to employ the enzyme, called prostate-specific antigen (PSA), as anything more than a blood-test indicator of cancer risk.
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