Prostate cancer affects one out of six men as they age, and now UW researchers think they have discovered one reason why. Blame it on a misbehaving gene.
“We’ve found that there’s a gene in the prostate that alters its expression with aging, and that aberrant gene behavior is what promotes the development of cancer,” explained Dr. David Jarrard, the study’s principal author and a professor of urology at the UW Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center in Madison.