Children's Hospital Boston awarded over $500,000 for prostate cancer research.

2004 AUG 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Three investigators at Children's Hospital Boston have received highly competitive grants from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for research on prostate cancer, totaling more than $500,000.

Awarded by a panel of scientific experts and prostate cancer survivors, the grants target innovative proposals from emerging scientists that fill gaps in ongoing research.

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American men and the second leading cause of male cancer deaths in the U.S. Currently, there is no cure for locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer, which have responded poorly to traditional chemotherapy. Two of the DoD-funded projects at Children's will study the role of angiogenesis and antiangiogenic therapy, extending work begun by …