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Special Features
Prostate cancer spurs new nerves
Prostate cancer – and perhaps other cancers – promotes the growth of new nerves and the branching axons that carry their messages, a finding associated with more aggressive tumors, said researchers from the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine in the first report of the phenomenon that appears today in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. Read full story on prostate cancer study findings. Watch video