Abstract

PROSTATE CANCER AND MATRIXMETALLOPROTIENASE-2

Pratap Shankar*, Rahul Kumar, Dheeraj Kumar Singh, Amod Kumar Sachan, S. N. Sankhwar, Rajendra Nath, Rakesh Kumar Dixit

ABSTRACT

Prostate cancer being a most common type of cancer in men, and second most leading cause of death, draws attention of the clinicians as well as the researchers to eradicate it. Till now there is no specific treatment for the cancer. So it is needed to find out drug for the cancer. Here we focused on the prostate cancer and its treatment by Matrix metalloproteinase-2 as a main cause for the metastasis and finally death of the patients by the prostate cancer.

Keywords: Prostate cancer, MMP-2, ECM, Metastasis, invasion.