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Prostatic Neoplasms
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The UKGPCS was set up to find genetic alterations which occur in patients who have prostate cancer.
A man's risk of developing prostate cancer increases if he has a first-degree relative (father or brother) who was diagnosed with prostate cancer at a young age. This is why we are looking for men who are affected at a young age or who have a family history of prostate cancer, since it is more probable that these prostate cancers are due to an inherited genetic cause rather than an environmental cause.
We also ask all men who come to the Royal Marsden Hospital to be treated for prostate cancer if they would like to take part in the study so that we can also look to see if we find genetic alterations in older men, and those who do not have a family history of prostate cancer.
Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.
The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
"Kote-Jarai Z, Mikropoulos C, Leongamornlert DA, Dadaev T, Tymrakiewicz M, Saunders EJ, Jones M, Jugurnauth-Little S, Govindasami K, Guy M, Hamdy FC, Donovan JL, Neal DE, Lane JA, Dearnaley D, Wilkinson RA, Sawyer EJ, Morgan A, Antoniou AC, Eeles RA; UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study Collaborators, and the ProtecT Study Group. Prevalence of the HOXB13 G84E germline mutation in British men and correlation with prostate cancer risk, tumour characteristics and clinical outcomes. Ann Oncol. 2015 Apr;26(4):756-761. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdv004. Epub 2015 Jan 16."; "25595936"
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The study is sponsored by Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom and is in collaboration with Cancer Research UK; Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
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