The findings could help doctors distinguish between more and less aggressive prostate cancers and adjust the way they are treated accordingly. Credit: The Independent

The findings could help doctors distinguish between more and less aggressive prostate cancers and adjust the way they are treated accordingly.
Credit: The Independent

Scientists have discovered that prostate cancer could in fact be five different diseases, in research that may change the way the condition is treated.

Researchers at Cancer Research UK said they had been able, for the first time, to group prostate cancer tumours into five distinct groups based on their genetic make-up.

The findings, based on analysis of 100 different genes in cancerous tissue from 250 men, could, in the future, help doctors distinguish between more and less aggressive prostate cancers, and adjust the way they are treated accordingly.

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