Biological Clock May Offer Treatment for Prostate Cancer by Karishma Abhishek on January 16, 2021 at 2:44 PM
All our body s natural rhythms of light and dark are synchronized by our biological or circadian clock. Disrupting this clock might simply bring all the process to halt. This may even lead to prostate cancer - second leading cause of cancer death for men in the U.S. One of the clock genes CRY-1 is found to be involved in prostate cancer progression, as per the research at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer - Jefferson Health (SKCC) published in the journal Nature Communications. When we analyzed human cancer data, the circadian factor CRY-1 was found to increase in late stage prostate cancers, and is strongly associated with poor outcomes. However, the role of CRY-1 in human cancers has not been explored , says Karen Knudsen, MBA PhD, executive vice president of oncology services for Jefferson Health and enterprise director of SKCC, and senior author