The Hartford hospital's Curtis D. Robinson Men's Health Institute will provide data and samples to Tuskegee's cancer research program under a memorandum of understanding signed Monday. The collaboration will include scientific research and testing to try to determine how prostate cancer is passed on in African-American men and to predict which cancers will be more aggressive.
“This partnership is a leading-edge, very novel approach to finding a cure for prostate cancer,” said Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, medical director of the Connecticut institute.
The hospital plans to routinely provide researchers at the Alabama University with prostate cancer tissue from African-American men. The Tuskegee program has previously had only random samples for its research.
