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Drugs designed for prostate cancer show promise for treating melanoma in men
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Drugs designed for prostate cancer show promise for treating melanoma in men

by University of Pennsylvania Melanoma in skin biopsy with H&E stain — this case may represent superficial spreading melanoma. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 New research shows that testosterone promotes melanoma proliferation by activating a newly recognized nonclassical testosterone receptor in melanoma cells called ZIP9 (encoded by the SLC39A9 gene), a zinc transporter that is not...