David Berman, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology, oncology and urology at Johns Hopkins, discusses the different ways he and his lab are looking at how prostate cancer develops.

David Berman, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology, oncology and urology at Johns Hopkins, discusses the different ways he and his lab are looking at how prostate cancer develops.

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Program Notes:

0:21   It's a different way of looking at how cancer develops
1:28   Each of these cells uses different components
2:35   Genes being assigned different functional characteristics
3:32   We can find all the genes in the pathway
4:40   Now we can use a reproducible system
5:44   Is nestin a good target for therapy?
6:39   Understanding the lineage of a cancer cell important
7:30   More of a therapeutic target than a way to predict
8:54   Shift means more aggressive tumor type?
10:01 End

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