Written by Evan Y. Yu, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
The polycomb group protein enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) has been a potentially promising target for prostate cancer dating back to an early Nature publication from the Chinnaiyan lab in 2002.1 In that manuscript, they showed that EZH2 is overexpressed in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Inhibition through genetic methods, in cell lines, decreased cell proliferation in vitro, and EZH2 expression correlated with worse prognosis, implicating a significant role of dysregulated EZH2 expression in prostate cancer progression.