Whither Dickkopf

Investigator Ken Gorelick is much taken with the title of this new study, which has an unusual interplay of German and English meanings:

“High serum levels of Dickkopf-1 are associated with a poor prognosis in prostate cancer patients,” Tilman D Rachner, Stefanie Thiele, Andy Göbel, Andrew Browne, Susanne Fuessel, Kati Erdmann, Manfred P Wirth, Michael Fröhner, Tilman Todenhöfer, Michael H Muders, Matthias Kieslinger, Martina Rauner and Lorenz C Hofbauer, BMC Cancer, 2014, 14:649.

BONUS: Dickkopf-1