§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what research facilities are being financed directly or indirectly by his Department into the causes and treatment of prostate gland complaints; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. William SheltonThe Medical Research Council, which receives a grant-in-aid from the science budget of my Department, is currently funding a number of research projects which relate to the prostate gland. The details are as follows
Department of Surgery, University of Edinburgh—Studies of the cellular and molecular basis of zinc in the hyperplastic and malignant prostate.Division of Cytogenetics and Immunology, Institute of Cancer Research, London—Application of cytogenetics and immunogentics to the study of human malignant and premalignant disease.Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London—Radiopharmaceuticals for use with scanning emission tomography in breast and prostate cancer.Department of Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London—The role of prostaglandins in monitoring the growth and spread of prostatic cancer.The council also provides grants to support the activities of a number of private sector research institutes. At one of these—the Strangeways research laboratory, Cambridge—one of the research .projects is the carcinogenic action of finely divided metals and the endocrinology of the prostate and its malignancy. Additional work on the causes and teatment of prostate gland complaints is being carried out in various universities using funds from the block grants provided through the University Grants Committee for teaching and research.
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