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| Professor Melissa Southey |
Professor Melissa Southey from the Department of Medicine is
one of two Monash researchers to receive funding for research into prostate
cancer. Last month, the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia announced more
than $1 million in new funding to coincide with Prostate Cancer Awareness
Month.
The funding boost will support a total of three research projects to
better detect prostate cancer’s progression and advance knowledge of how the
deadly disease impacts men's lives. [1]
Professor Southey’s research project looks at using new
epigenetic information to better predict which men are most likely to develop
aggressive prostate cancer. Susceptibility to prostate cancer may be due to
inherited DNA sequence variation (genetics) or DNA modification (epigenetics).
Dr Southey has identified several inherited DNA modifications that occur in
families with higher rates of prostate cancer. This information with be used
with existing risk prediction models and molecular testing strategies for
prostate cancer to improve prostate cancer risk prediction for all men.
Knowing
a man’s prostate cancer risk will assist clinicians to determine how best to
test for the disease and how aggressively to treat prostate cancer should it
occur.
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