The clinical spectrum of prostate cancer ranges from curable, local disease to widely metastatic, lethal cancer. Two new prostate cancer genome studies provide the first glimpse at both ends of this spectrum.
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Hieronymus, H., Sawyers, C. Traversing the genomic landscape of prostate cancer from diagnosis to death. Nat Genet 44, 613–614 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2301
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