Patients with certain KLK-6 mutations at risk for aggressive forms of prostate cancer

A newly published article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has suggested that men carrying a particular genetic mutation in the kallikrein 6 gene (KLK-6) have an increased risk for aggressive, clinically significant prostate cancer. The new paper by Briollais et al. (see also this commentary on the ScienceDirect web site) is based […]