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UTHSC professor receives $455,000 grant to study cause of aggressive prostate cancer – News-Medical.Net
Ramesh Narayanan, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine and the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a $455,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a two-year study of the under…

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 17 2020
Ramesh Narayanan, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine and the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a $455,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a two-year study of the underlying cause of the development of aggressive prostate cancer in African American men.
Approximately 174,000 men in the United States were diagnosed with prostate cancer and 31,000 died of the d…