The journey: One lab’s long winding road to cancer discovery | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The journey: One lab’s long winding road to cancer discovery | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

As many as one in eight men in America will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lives. About one in 44 will die from it. “Prostate cancer is very common,” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Lloyd Trotman says. “The vast majority of prostate cancers remain slow-growing and will never be life-threatening. The problem is that about 10 to 15 percent will be more aggressive and become resistant to therapy. To this day…