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PCGP Newsletter Archive

Spring 2004 Issue:

• From the Director
• Use of Contemporary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) among Brothers of Men with Prostate Cancer
• Where is Your Family From?
• Candidate Genes for Prostate Cancer: BRCA1
• Death Certificates are Valuable to Us
• Why We Do Not Advise Families About What We Find

From the Director

Over the past months, we have been hard at work and have made some important steps toward our goal of identifying the genetic basis for hereditary prostate cancer. In this newsletter, we have chosen to focus on some new aspects of our research including studies of genetic ancestry and sequencing of the BRCA1 gene in some PCGP families. If you are interested in the scientific articles, please visit the Prostate Genetics Project webpages. Direct links to some of our papers can be found there or please call us if you would like a reprint.

The search for prostate cancer genes has been complicated since there are likely multiple genes involved in disease susceptibility. As a consequence, we have had the opportunity to collaborate with many investigators both inside and outside of the University of Michigan who are working on similar research projects. We are active participants in the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics (ICPCG), and will be hosting the Spring ICPCG meeting here in Ann Arbor. We will provide you with a report of this meeting in our next newsletter.

Kathleen A. Cooney, M.D.
Project Director
University of Michigan PCGP

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Articles by:
Caroline Mohai, Hina Bhalala, Wendy Kohlmann, MS, CGC, Kathleen A. Cooney, MD

Special thanks to: Lisa Robbins, Shelley Zalewski, Katherine Loberg, and Stephen B. Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH Editor: Jen Sandor, MPH

See Also:

• Urologic Cancers
• UMCCC Clinical Trials

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