Protein Linked to Prostate Cancer

www.bcm.tmc.edu/baylormed September, 2000 Gene Identified for Cardiomyopathy The Director of the Heart Failure and Transplantation Unit at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Professor of Pediatrics was extremely excited with the news of a gene recently identified. Baylor College of Medicine researchers have identified a new gene that is responsible for dilated cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of heart failure in children and adults. It is a common heart …

…that will allow for prediction of where the cancer would spread. This also could lead to a screening tool for African-American males and possibly all males. Dr. Thompson is also hoping this research might lead to a drug to counteract the protein. With this finding of a marker, it takes Dr. Thompson's research to a whole new level of understanding prostate cancer. Dr. Thompson's research is funded through a grant from the National Cancer Institute.